Darkness Made Visible is a deeply personal body of work. For Jane Miosge, photography has become a tool for personal insight. Miosge uses it to reveal aspects of herself that cannot be expressed through another form. She is fascinated by the power that photography holds in capturing emotion which, for her, can express beyond the limitations of language.

As an artist, rather than holding up a mirror to a mass faceless society, Miosge has taken the approach of holding a mirror up to herself. Introspection can reflect something of the collective consciousness by tapping into universal experience via individual experience. Miosge’s aim is to connect with the viewer on a deep level and provoke an emotional response to the work.

The intention of Jane Miosge’s current body of work is to visually represent how she feels in a particular moment. She uses natural objects of organic shape and form within the urban environment as the primary means of communicating the fleeting nature of emotion and the ever-changing state of the inner world.

“A house is a personal sanctuary. The series was photographed within the limited physical surrounds of the front and backyard of the house I was living in during that time. The front yard connects us to the rest of the world while the backyard is a space further removed from the external world, symbolic of our deeper selves.” – Jane Miosge

“The images were all photographed after twilight. By exploring the mystery of night, the unseen became visible. Taking long exposures was an act of letting go, of allowing things to unfold around me. It became an organic and intuitive process.”

What resulted is a personal narrative, a self portrait taken in fragments over the period of a year revealing themes of decay, growth and regeneration.