BELONGING, WANDERING and SALVAGED (2024)
A series of fold out books.
1. BELONGING
Size: folded flat, 6″ X 9″ X .5″, unfolded flat, 11″ X 25.5″, sculpted variable
Maybe I belong here
Maybe I don’t belong here and I should just leave right now
But I just don’t feel that I do belong here
It seems like I could
I would like to and I have tried
I want to think what you think but I don’t
While you are talking, I am thinking about other things
I pretend to like the things you say
I pretend to agree with you but your way of thinking is different than mine
2. WANDERING
Size: folded flat, 8.5″ X 11″ X .5″, unfolded flat, 11″ X 34″, sculpted variable
Distracted
I return
Roaming the cavernous labyrinth of interconnected rooms
Darkness and obscurity
Progressive and regressive wandering
The camera clicks, negatives drop image by image into the container of water
Black strings of emulsion drift
Dark, blurry, murky, homey, mouldering zone
Are-articulation of this inhabited space
Cuts into the dense compost of photographs
Groundless depth, stratified space and time, now pliable
Folding, taping and gluing, I seek out traces of continuity between images
Contingent bonds
Intercalated
A peristaltic process, images added and removed
The thick messy memory between intervals and disparities is affirmed
A sense of place emerges