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The images in this collection are part of a broader, personal journey … they form a fragmentary narrative woven together from various bits and pieces of my dreamworld … they are a kind of conceptual-symbolic documentation of my inner life.
On better days, on days with less pain … I go to sleep dreaming of a world re-enchanted, imbued with the Sublime … a world once again enveloped within the atmospherics of the Absolute.
This series deals with "found non-objects" … the “unseen” gaps and rifts in nature … the inconsistencies and lacunae—absences that exist, in part, because we impose our own radically incomplete boundaries upon the natural landscape.
I confront the viewer with landscapes that barely coalesce into recognizable scenes.
In this series of images, glowing spheres articulate a stage: orb-like … orbital … tidal … perhaps lunar. The body moves through them, multiplying, stuttering, and refusing a unitary self.
I made these portraits of Susannah, a dancer, to “think out loud” with images … to restate and examine what Francis Bacon once said about flesh and identity.
Our passage through the vast expanse that envelops us is directed by an external, compelling force. Once we’re thrown into the world, we cannot help but fall … and we keep on falling until we can fall no further … until we fall back into the void.
These are scenes from my hometown in Svishtov, Bulgaria. The photos were taken many years after my childhood, specifically on my last trip to Svishtov, in 2008. That visit was prompted by the impending death of my grandfather; he passed away several days after I arrived.
This project will appear in book form, to be published by Underlife Editions.
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”.
I visited Iceland over the course of August and September of 2006, at a pivotal time in my life. My memories of this enchanted place are bound up with its landscapes. Iceland consists of many incredible vistas … vast open spaces, open skies, mountains, streams and ponds, barren black rocks, volcanic sands, mossy stones, crashing ocean waves … soft misty light on some days, harsh sunny contrasts on others. All of these have now melded together in me. Everything I remember and feel about Iceland is now refracted through time and distance. As such, I reimagined and re-edited the photos from my trip in ways that now feel more authentic. These images embody my memories; this is how Iceland sits in my mind and heart today. Remarkably, I still return to Iceland in my dreams, and this is how I see things, more or less, as I dream.
These images are from a beautiful, truly enchanted time in my childhood. I took these photos at the ancient Roman city of Leptis Magna, located near present-day Al-Khums, Libya (North Africa, on the Mediterranean coast). I would’ve been in grade 7, about 11 years old, at the time.