All Tenants of An Ancient Place
An Echo From The World Of Dreams
The Green Earth Shines Gold As The Sun Goes Down
I Seem As If In A Trance — Sublime and Strange
An Old And Solemn Harmony
Ludicrous and Wild
Yet Beautiful And Bright He Stood
All Seems Eternal Now
I’ve Seen The Writing In The Sky
The Sun Sinks Deeper — All Things Breathe Peace
Golden Notes Are All Around — Silence, Silence, Let Us Listen
Through the Realms of Gold is a photographic series that draws from the emotional landscape of Romanticism, a movement born in response to the perceived sterility of Enlightenment rationalism. In the wake of industrialization and empirical dominance, Romantic artists and poets turned instead toward nature, fantasy, memory, and feeling. Their work offered refuge from modern disillusionment—not through denial, but through a conscious shift toward the sublime and the imagined.
This body of work adopts those same ideals, using photography as a vessel for escapism. The images do not seek to document the world as it is, but rather as it might be when touched by awe, dream, and longing. The sublime—defined by the Romantics as a beauty that overwhelms, destabilizes, or inspires—is central to this project. In each photograph, I aim to construct spaces where reality grows porous, and emotion or wonder takes precedence over logic.
The series title is taken from John Keats’s sonnet On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, a poem in which poetic language becomes a portal to discovery and transformation. Similarly, each image title borrows lines or fragments from Romantic poetry, layering the photographs with literary echoes that reinforce the sense of timeless reverie.
Ultimately, Through the Realms of Gold is not just about escape from the present—it is about reimagining the present through a lens of beauty and introspection, much like the Romantics did, seeking meaning beyond the grasp of reason.
