"Sacred, Ordinary" reveals the the view from across a church in the neighbourhood where I grew up, Sainte-Marthe, in Marseille, France. Using two exposures of an alternative photography process, this piece shows the clarity that comes when our focus is on the cross. While Christ’s declaration that “it is finished” speaks to the completion of redemption, the fullness of the Kingdom of God has not yet arrived. This work explores this tension: in the waiting between fulfillment and completion, where might the sacred be encountered within the ordinary?

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This work from my recent solo show, "Already, Not Yet", exploring the tension of the in-between. Drawing on film photographs taken while revisiting my childhood hometowns in southern France, I lean into the tension of returning to once-familiar landscapes. The warmth of nostalgia blends into the ache of knowing that one no longer entirely belongs.

This series engages with the theological notion of the “already, but not yet”: a space between what is known and what is still becoming. Within this liminal terrain, certainty gives way to deeper complexity, valuing contemplation over resolution, inviting the viewer to reflect: What does it mean to live in the mystery of the in-between?

Using an experimental cyano-lumen process, I combine traditional cyanotype chemistry on photographic paper with materials such as tannin powder, turmeric, and bleach. Subject to chance and chemistry, this process embodies the unpredictability of transformation.

Hebrews 11:13 (CEV) reads, "But they still had faith, even though they had not received what they had been promised. They were glad just to see these things from far away, and they agreed that they were only strangers and foreigners on this earth."

This passage names a tension that sits at the center of this work: the experience of living in-between. The author of Hebrews describes how the faithful followers of God lived between promise and fulfillment. Their stories are not defined by arrival, but by faith held across distance. They received glimpses of what was promised without fully reaching it. In the same way, we live in this tension, between the sacred and the ordinary.

The landscapes in this series were captured while revisiting familiar places, and yet are no longer 'home'. In this way, they echo Hebrews 11:13’s language of being “strangers and foreigners,” not only in a spiritual sense, but in relation to place and belonging. Our truest sense of home is not here, but beyond.