She uses color in her photographs. Although not clearly
stated, she uses digital format for her work. Her main focus is scenery,
doctored with chemical agents to create a crystalline structure which she then
photographs. She uses materials such as Monoammonium Phospate, alum, or double
sulfate salt in water to create the prism-like structures.
Hickok, with her work, tries to explore the space between
the real and the imagined, and the natural and the manmade. She also tried to
make her work shed light into the chemicals in the foods that we eat every day.
Furthermore, she tries to make the viewer challenge how they view the concept
of space. Saying that although her work is small in nature, it can be reproduced on a much grander scale,
I truly enjoyed Hickok’s work. I have always had a
fascination about science and the weird, yet interesting ways one can go about
exploring it. While I do prefer the process on how it got to that point, the
actual finished product has a certain charm about itself that cannot be
reproduced.
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