ABOUT ME

Wandering Cinnamon

The name Cinnamon was a gift from close friends at a regional Burning Man event on the East Coast, and it stuck. Wandering was added because I travel extensively and from my love of hiking. Wandering Cinnamon became my artist name for the work that followed.

I’m a photographer working primarily in bodyscapes, a style built around projecting imagery directly onto the human form, along with fire photography and other alternative light sources.

Bodyscapes started with a conversation about a projector I’d been given as a gift, specifically about capturing people dancing in projected light at shows, and whether that same idea could work as a still image instead of a performance. A friend and I brought the projector into the studio to find out. The first attempts didn’t look anything like what I had in mind, but I kept experimenting until they did. I’ve heard the results described a lot of different ways over the years, but bodyscapes is the name I started using and feels right to me.

Fire is the other constant in my work, sharing the same appeal as flow arts and fire performance, aimed at a still camera instead of a crowd. Both bodyscapes and fire photography share the same core idea: light and shadow doing as much of the work as the body itself.

Ten years and many photoshoots later, this has become a passion with a deep, ongoing archive, built around the same fascination with what light can do to a human form.

New work is shared regularly. The full, uncensored range of it, new shoots, archive drops, and more can be found on my Patreon.