Images hold the charge of revelation, not in what they show, but in their capacity to make wonder visible. Drawing on David Levi-Strauss’s (Photography and Belief, 2020) investigations on whether belief is implicated in how we perceive images, I present a selection of images which can be read as a theological sequence of the landscape (Iceland) transformed into a field of apparition where every natural occurrence is potentially supernatural. 

Captured on film in 2024, the images reference the mid-16th century Augsburg Book of Miracles. The Book of Miracles is an account of a time when many were gripped by the conviction celestial and terrestrial occurrences – strange fauna, meteor showers, volcanic eruptions – were deific omens of impending doom. Created as a warning, and a consolation, the illustrations hover between magic, terror of cataclysmic prophecies and scientific curiosity to document unexplained phenomena and rationalise the world.