"Queens of Impermanence" is a series of five photographic portraits, captured using medium and large format film cameras. The two large format portraits utilized a half-frame dark slide, which allows for subsequent exposures on the left then right side of the film. All five negatives were scanned, enlarged, and reprinted on transparency film to create large digital negatives, which were then used to create platinotypes.
This series explores change: autumn that eschews parasols for snow, tides that ebb and flood, flames that escape our control, memory that changes and fades, gold that tarnishes and melts. The models become the royal embodiments of these transitory concepts, where the viewer is imagined as vassal. Wardrobe reflects kingdom; the Queen of Tides's moon earrings, the Queen of Autumn's snowy white ensemble. Change is embedded in both the images and the creation process: in "Queen of Flames," for example, the right half of the original negative was burned with a candle to distort the image while the left half was left intact, showing fire's ability to both damage and transform.