Lula Grace Hawkins

In I Woke to Find Myself Alone in a Dark Wood, Hawkins questions photography as an attempt to grant permanence to fleeting moments, and the notion of images as doorways to the past. Her research has led to an exploration of the ways that trauma can cause disruptions within our subconscious temporal and spatial perception. To illustrate these rifts, she unravels a sensuous experience of punctured reality through meditative explorations in nature. By producing observational images in liminal settings-empty roads, motel rooms-she develops a visual language that documents instances of subtle hyperreality. 

Lula Hawkins was born and raised in the Bay Area, California, and is currently working in New York City. She spends time exploring and photographing throughout the Hudson Valley.