Photos are physical records of light trace. Expanding and compressing, distorting and abstracting, photographs play with time and light in ways that no other medium does. In these photos, the idea of recording and capturing light is expanded on through the integration of candles and fire. In most images, the negative was burned post-development before being scanned digitally or darkroom printed. The burned film adds a second light trace to the exposed film, creating a trace on top of a trace or an "index sandwich." In one photo, 20 minutes of candles burning down is compressed and distilled into one still image. Through the use of burning film and long exposure, ideas of miracle, ritual, and spirituality are being explored and made into photographic abstractions. In this way, these images are pieces of evidence from a world that