“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.”
WIP: With Negative Horizon, I intuitively fold and crush printed James White Telescope images into unanticipated sculptural forms. These meditative explorations into the materialization of 3D space are my way of engaging with the ineffable passage of time and the significance of presence.
The life cycle of digital images is unpredictable and rapid. Pictures churn through our lives, their messages shifting as they gallop through the disembodied apparati of late-stage capitalism’s digital revolution. By molding NASA’s hyperreal images of impossibly deep time/space into object form, I attempt to slow the dromocratic churning and hold space for something that exists here and now.
“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon [the] possibility of freedom - and thus 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. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us.”
