Ride The Dragon

Forms imitate life and life imitates art A quiet, poetic study of how the human body and the natural world hold onto memory, each image becoming a fragile trace of what lingers after presence fades.

The series continues Canyon’s ongoing interest in the space between presence and loss: what remains in the air after a gesture, what stays in a room after someone leaves, how memory settles into physical matter. Through scanning, printing, and re-materializing the images, each photograph goes through a cycle of touch and reproduction. Along the way it gathers marks and imperfections that echo lived experience. Like places that remember more than they can express, the photographs carry their own layered histories.

Set within a forest, the images unfold in a landscape that is both literal and emotional. Bent branches, fallen leaves, and soft organic shapes mirror the vulnerability of the human body. The forest becomes an archive of inner states, holding the tension between fragility and endurance. Figures stretch across tree trunks or sink into the shadows of the understory, their presence felt yet fleeting.

The series suggests that histories - personal, bodily, and ecological - never fully disappear. They linger quietly, leaving subtle marks that resurface through the dialogue between the body and the natural world.