Tentative Title: "Ephemeral Bodies"

This is a story about an artist who, by means of her exquisite work, was able to find a gap in reality … and hence to conjure the Void. But here, she found a zone of chaos and instability, which, to her surprise, contained boundless potentiality. She had discovered a space within which seemingly spontaneous creation, ex nihilo, could take place … and so she immediately called forth her one true love, an impossible love for its truth and purity … and her one true love indeed came forth … she materialized, ex nihilo.

But the consequences were tragic. …. For, the Void, inevitably rescinds any thing made real by means of it …. and ultimately, the Void retracts within itself all that was once real.

This photographic series narrates the tale of an artist whose exquisite craftsmanship unlocked a fissure in reality, granting her access to the Void—a realm of chaos, instability, and infinite potentiality. Within this liminal space, creation from nothingness - the paradox of materialization ex nihilo - was included in the realm of the possible. Driven by loneliness and longing, she summoned forth her impossible love, defined by an idealized truth and purity. Miraculously, her beloved emerged, fully realized, from emptiness itself.

Yet, this miracle bore inevitable tragedy, for the Void permits no permanence. All that arises from it must, in time, succumb to dissolution, inexorably reclaimed by the Void from which it came.

Like Orpheus reclaiming Eurydice, their union defied nature and was doomed by inevitability. Echoing Clarice Lispector’s insight, the artist understands that in diving into the abyss, she ultimately discovered it within herself.