"Ward's cyanotypes push the temporality of shape in the direction of complete ineffability. Though trained as a photojournalist, she has for over a decade devoted herself to forcing an evidentiary medium to perform as a suggestive one. The things that in the past have captivated her - sheets of colored cellophane, curtains - are purely atmospheric, their filminess a doubling of the photographic medium itself, shorn of any reference to corporeality"