“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. These works were made in response to that impossible pace.
I began by printing images from the James Webb Telescope — the largest and most powerful telescope currently in existance— then intuitively cut, folded, and molded the paper prints into sculptural forms. The slow process of shaping NASA’s hyperreal visions of impossibly deep spacetime into material form is my way of disrupting the dromocratic churn.
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. ”