The Nature of Instability
Project Statement
In this project, I suppose a world where objects of everyday use harmoniously overlap with forms of nature. As clothes hangers hover like frozen birds, or the light of a lamp becomes like that of the moon’s, a poetic sense of coexistence between human-made and organic form emerges. This pensive balance teeters between real and imagined, possible and absurd.
Accordingly, the work is characterized by contrary relationships. An ordinarily clear-cut division between artificial and natural materials becomes disrupted, or visually tangled, creating a noticeable misrepresentation of reality. As the photographs engage in formal play, a peripheral sense of environmental tension seeps into each scene’s harmony.
There is a troublesome impossibility to the idea of the natural world exhibiting a sincere embrace of the synthetic. Even in the illusions of these photographs, it is difficult to reconcile a true sense of peace between the artificial and natural forces that meet to create the scapes of our world.