Your mind is restless, they say you’re getting better But, you don’t feel any better Your speakers are blowing, your ears are wrecking Your hearing damage, you wish you felt better You wish you felt better
Hearing Damage, Thom Yorke
The Subtle Body of Living Things is a visual response to the life experience of always being close enough to encounter peace, but never truly being able to experience it. Processing the loss of my memory, my moments, and most of all, the version of myself that I envisioned, has created an additional layer of anxiety that I previously never anticipated.
After a diagnosis of a recurrent syncope with zero solution or direction, my life was immediately reduced to a series of cautious and unsettling episodes. Induced by the very joy I have always chased, laughter has become a ticking bomb that causes the rhythm of my mind to disjoint. I often awake on the floor with little to no reference for how I arrived there, and if I am lucky, some of my memory of the incident will eventually emerge in fragments. Time, something I have always considered as constant, has taken an edge of impermanence.
The Subtle Body of Living Things is my most interdisciplinary work to date, utilizing time as the medium, which is then threaded through multiple lens based methods and experimental processes. Created using short films as the base, each piece takes footage of a peaceful location and utilizes crystal prisms to disorient and separate from the original tranquility present. After, the work further deconstructs time by utilizing a different combination of moving film with multiple photography techniques, including moving installations with Polaroid lifts, digital collage methods with hand coated printing techniques, and alcohol-based photo transfer accordion books. Drawing inspiration from Uta Barth’s White Blind (Bright Red) and Penelope Umbrico’s Range, images are pulled out of sequence, altered, then reconstructed – irrevocably different from their first experience. The installed work, resulting from a space of both desperation and play, creates an immersive experience that reimagines peace from behind the glass.
This body of work is currently available for exhibition! Please contact for more information.
