here, now...
2021
Hand-bound, leporelo artist’s photobooks
Edition of 25
An exploration of familiar and domestic space through light; a visual diary dictated by routine and isolation.
here, now… functions as a subjective recollection of my confinement as much as it does a personal reflection of my behavioural and visual tendencies—preferences towards form, texture and light.
The publication presents a retrospective account of a year’s worth of image-making reactionary to the lack of stimulus and movement brought by isolation. It brings together near-identical abstracted snapshots taken months apart into a tightly sequenced image-loop that compresses a year’s worth of living into what feels like single, neverending day.
Simultaneously, a sense of ‘nowness’ permeates the publication, searching for beauty in the near-static through an unconventionally liquid and fluid image-layout that can be approached form either end, and at times, demands closer inspection and interaction from the viewer.
The result is an amalgamated imaginary timeline made up of past phenomena that unfolds in real time; a neverending day made up of instinctive gazes that deconstruct the monotonous domestic structure into something abstract enough to be registered as familiar, but untraceable: a sort of constant ‘near-punctum’.