2024
16mm and HD video, color, sound
16 minutes

Space Analogs is a structuralist meditation on alienation and exploration, drawn from six years of solo expeditions to landscapes that mirror extraterrestrial terrains. Filmed across Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Iceland, and the Arctic, the film layers poetic narration with vivid imagery of deserts, ice fields, and volcanic formations. Using the camera as an embodied mode of perception, the film investigates the physical and psychological solitude of navigating these spaces, imagining landscape as an orientation system through which Earth becomes a means of encountering other worlds. Tracing recurring hexagonal forms inspired by the windstorm on Saturn—from basalt columns, to MDMA, and serotonin—and recounting the artist's grandfather's life as a Chinese spy, the film connects the elemental patterns of Earth to the vast, unknowable geometry of the universe while drawing unexpected parallels between secrecy, survival, and the isolation of astronauts and explorers.