an ongoing 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓵𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻 ~ interested Lauren Berlant’s psychology of Progress ~ attachment ~ aesthetic spirit ~ and the ideology of presence + truth

recorded on black and white 35mm film, this body of work indulges in darkroom processes. underneath a photo enlarger, silver gelatin paper is moved during the moment of exposure, committing misbehaviors of light. the photos are stretched beyond their original dimension

calculated blur embraces abstract representations of time, so that time may lose its economic dimension. the horizon embodies duration, distance. impositions of light onto the emulsified surface take a formal approach to notions of intercession, utilizing light as material. the work derives meaning from the chemical capacity to fix an image; the depth of emulsion grants access to realms beyond the immediate

the photo series contends with dialectics of motion, dialectics of distance, and the ways in which a frame can hold an image