Amber And Her Walls is a series of photos taken in collaboration with athlete and artist Scarlett Yang that explores the idea of trapped energy. I've always been fascinated by looking at ancient amber, and thinking about how something so small could be tough enough to survive for millions of years, carrying fragments of extinct species, frozen in transparent time.
In this series, we see a girl who is wrapped in a series of numbers corresponding to Pi (π). She is stuck inside a piece of amber, which no matter how hard she tries to dance and release herself from, remains as her stubborn and permanent cage. Her being wrapped in the numbers of Pi correspond to the seemingly never-ending passage of time where she is stuck inside this material...it relates to the idea that time is a circle which (as far as we know) can't be broken.
Across these millions of years of her petrified existence, the colors shift around her, as the material both freezes and heat up depending on the changes of the planet. These changes move her to dance, laugh and rage inside of her amber prison.
