Ariel C. Wilson is a photographer and educator currently based in West Virginia. While presenting her work on the main stage at the SPE national conference in March, Wilson posed a simple but provocative question: where does the photographic image end, and the page begin?

Wilson’s series To See From Somewhere builds on the artist’s broad and overlapping interests: image materiality, or the lack of it; the role of accident or happenstance in one’s creative practice, resisting the limits imposed by representationalism, and abstraction as a means to recognize systems of inequality in and outside the art world.

After seeing Wilson speak at SPE, we spoke about her unique approach to non/image making.

Roula Seikaly in conversation with Ariel C. Wilson