“It is hard to imagine a society that would deny the body as we had denied the soul. This is, however, where we are headed.”
The digital life of images is unpredictable and rapid. Pictures convulse before our eyes, meaning and context shifting as they gallop through late-stage capitalism’s digital revolution. Negative Horizon is an WIP series of photo sculptures, made in response to that impossible pace.
I begin by culling images of interstellar form and space from NASA’s Image and Video Library, then intuitively cut, fold, and mold the paper prints into sculptural forms. The slow process of mutating these hyperreal and highly rendered visions of impossible spacetime into material form is my way of slowing the dromocratic churn to question the objectivity of an image, regardless of the source.
WIP 2022—present
“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon the possibility of freedom — and its significance — in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in the face of the chance necessity of death. ”