Light and shadow have always felt to me like characters — each with their own personality, their own history, their own stories to tell. This series is an attempt to let them tell those stories. Sometimes they are alone, occupying vast darkened spaces with only their own presence for company. Sometimes they find each other — and what happens between them is by turns tender, confrontational, mysterious, and achingly familiar. The narratives are unscripted. I created the conditions and watched what emerged.

The work was made at Wentworth Woodhouse, at the time the largest private estate in England — since acquired by the National Trust. A friend had inherited the property and lived there largely alone, with a caretaker and his dogs. It was a place defined by its own scale, rooms and corridors that seemed to go on forever, grandeur that had long outlasted the world it was built for. It was the right stage. I lived and worked there across two extended stays, and made a short film on the property as well.

For this series I constructed dresses made of thousands of individual LED lights — so that light itself could be something carried, something worn, the source and the subject inseparable.