Into the Deep
Turn what you’re feeling into visual Poetry.
An 8-week immersion in turning memory, emotion, longing, and the things you don't quite have words for into photographs with meaning.
Anyone can photograph what they can see.
Into the Deep begins with what you can't.
A memory you keep returning to.
A feeling you can't quite name.
The sentence you wrote in your journal and immediately wanted to cross out.
The longing. The grief. The tenderness. The rage. The thing underneath the thing.
This is where we begin.
Not with a camera.
With you.
Over eight weeks, I'll teach you how to take what's moving around inside you and begin giving it a visual language — through words, metaphor, photographs, materials, and whatever form the work asks you to follow.
Because sometimes a photograph is enough.
And sometimes it isn't.
Some feelings were never meant for words.
Take what lives underneath the surface & in between words
& turn it into your own visual poetry.
This is the alchemy: taking something you carry and transforming it into something meaningful, tangible, and beautiful.
The Experience
Words → Associations → Symbols → Images → Materials → Object/World
01 — GOING INWARD
Finding the thing underneath the thing.
02 — THE INTERNAL LANDSCAPE
Exploring memory, time, emotion, and the nonlinear world within.
03 — WORDS INTO IMAGES
Turning words, associations, and metaphor into visual possibilities.
04 — MAKING THE PHOTOGRAPH
Creating images from meaning, rather than waiting for something interesting to appear.
05 — BEYOND THE PHOTOGRAPH
Exploring material, texture, intervention, and the photograph as an object.
06 — YOUR VISUAL LANGUAGE
Discovering the materials and processes that belong to your ideas. Cyanotypes, stitching or drawing on photos, gold leaf, etc. You don’t have to do any of them. You don’t have to buy materials. You’ll have access to videos to learn these techniques if you want to incorporate them into your work.
07 — MAKING A BODY OF WORK
Finding the relationships, echoes, and threads that hold your images together.
08 — BRINGING IT INTO EXISTENCE
Giving your internal landscape a form you can see, hold, and share.
YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO MAKE YET.
You don't need a fully formed project.
You don't need to consider yourself a conceptual artist.
You don't need to know how to stitch a photograph or make a cyanotype.
You don't need some enormous traumatic story worthy of making art about.
You just need curiosity.
You can use any camera, including your iphone. No prior experience required.
Maybe your inner life has outgrown the photographs you're making.
Let’s fix that.
“Thank you Catherine for returning me to myself and my connection with something vital and wordless. Thank you for the joy and the fun of creativity and the listening in new and essential ways. To be in process again, to be in creation, to be in transformation, to be in relationship with the unknown, unfolding into the next moment, to be an artist…yes. And thank you for introducing me to photography which I truly love so much! ”
Miranda
“It's not just photography, it's not just personal growth and it's not just spiritual practice. It's everything. The way you share what you know changed me. For the better. Beyond what I ever e”
Susan B.
YOU WON’T LEARN HOW TO MAKE WORK LIKE MINE.
You’ll learn how to create your own visual language.
What emerges
is something that could only belong to you:
a visual record of
your own rhythm, hum, energy, frequency, song.
THE DETAILS
8 WEEKS. LIVE. TOGETHER.
We’ll meet live on Zoom every Wednesday at 10:30am Pacific for eight weeks.
Can’t make a session live? Every gathering will be recorded so you can watch on your own time or return to it whenever you need.
DATES TBA
Join the wait list and you’ll be the first to know when the next session of Into the Deep opens.
About Me
At 18, newly sober from meth addiction, I picked up a camera and turned my pain into visual poetry.
It saved my life.
39 years later, still sober, I exhibit internationally : Milan, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles : and offer "Capturing Breath on Film," photo sessions
that travel with me globally.
I'm a single parent to my son Max, who has Down syndrome. He keeps me anchored in presence, honesty, and what actually matters.
I personally apprenticed with Miguel Ruiz, Author of the Four Agreements and am certified in somatic modalities that I bring with me if it feels right to bring those into my sessions.
I offer mentoring, courses and retreats for those looking for ways to turn their own experiences into their
own version of visual medicine.
Get on the wait list to be first in line when registration opens.