In caves, the darkroom, and the lighting studio, I investigate darkness as an active presence and examine our relationship with the Earth as a struggle between control and submission through sight and light.A cave serves as a site of resistance. Defined by darkness, it resists our need to illuminate and make sense of it. This work highlights the struggle to comprehend the Earth, and the way that our presence and projections are intrusive, even violent, both below and across its surface.