Chiaroscuro began as a photographic series references the stations of the cross yet as the collection expanded it transcended its original incarnation becoming a more secular entity — one removed from the confines of esoteric dogmatics.
Etymologically Chiaroscuro can be interpreted as clear and obscure and so the series undercurrent of religious themes takes on greater resonance. The clear being the transition from a static body through frenzied motion whilst the obscure transfigures from incarceration metamorphosing through suffering towards an ethereal spiritual entity, be that a refugees plight or a more corporal metaphor of a body fighting disease. The figure's face is deliberately shrowded throughout so that it becomes a motif, an everyman, a pilgrim walking a path.
— 35mm film
