Although each photograph in this body of work may carry it’s own specific meaning, the project as a whole is primarily about identity in the most elemental sense. Some of these beings are attempting to emerge into the world, struggling for definition. Others wish to cloak their identity or live in a purgatory of half formed selves. In the case of the burning figures, they seek to destroy their identity and recede from physical existence.

Perhaps these images attempt to shed light on the fragility of our temporal presence. The series Dark Eros stands somewhat apart thematically from the rest of Ephemeral Beings. Perhaps the connection between this series and the other three is that the erotic force is the physical realm and can be seen as an antidote to the fear which accompanies the knowledge of our fragile physical existence.