This is a print selected from Metamorphoses, a project that transforms Ovid’s collection of myths from the ancient world, written toward the end of his life nearly two thousand years ago, into a photographic journal of contemporary life.

Earthiness, domestic activity, and unlikely female heroines emerge. Themes and stories that historically and predominantly have been described through male narrators and on a European stage are seen in the people, architecture, landscape and animals of a Latin American country—from Santiago to Tierra del Fuego. Gender is fluid. As are place, time and the identity of non-human creatures.

Looking back, these places, people and events, while taken from my own experience, have come to embody near universal figures from myth—and now I see in them the patterns that are universally described as the fate of Apollo & Daphne, Narcissus & Echo, and Orpheus & Eurydice.