PORTRAITURE FOR POSSIBLE OBJECTS
These photographs are part of my ongoing practice of tableaux, or staged/choreographed photography, which in this instance I use to explore themes of “in/completeness” and “im/pernanence”.
This series is a presentation of temporary geometric constructions that were assembled from rods, wire, wood, cardboard, and other materials. Built specifically for the camera and dismantled afterwards, they were not intended to exist as autonomous sculptures. Instead, these photographs have become their more durable form.
The constructions are deliberately provisional, slightly off-kilter, and visually unresolved. They are presented as objects that are just barely possible, and the resulting images are meant to examine our expectations that visual forms ought to cohere, that partial or unstable structures must be completed.
As such, looking becomes a kind of speculative act, where the viewer attempts to stabilize unfinished forms, make wholes from fragments, and impose continuity on interruption. The work broadly considers our desire to construct completeness and meaning from things that are inherently temporary, fragmented, or unresolved, and asks whether coherence belongs to the object itself or if, instead, is produced through the act of perception.
