“ill angels only” is an elegy to change. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s poem Dream-Land (1844), which describes the journey of a ghost that haunts the living world, the work weaves together the symbolism of mourning culture with the nostalgia-producing mechanisms inherent to photography.

The work sits in a post-photographic lineage that links to the idea of mediation alongside spirit and aura photography, as well as more contemporary byproducts of constructed images, but where the raw source material is photographic in nature. In each case, the result is not the thing itself but an afterimage—a residue that marks an encounter with a latent space.