Series - FotoSlovo 2024 - Category « Fine Art »

As a college student I lost my best friend to drowning at Wild Woods Falls in Oregon, on May 31st 2015. The deep sense of grief and loss reverberated through the reaches of my mind. It was at this point in time that a film camera was given to me by an elderly lady back-packing around the States on her own quest for meaning after the death of her life long partner.

This series aims to explore the ontological persistence of life after death. The metaphysical ripples of lives which have ended continue to create impact and meaning long after our loved ones have departed. My work is an attempt to visually communicate the intangible qualities of trace, nostalgia, memory, absence and loss. Sontag (1973:14) reminds us that “to take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or things) mortality, vulnerability, mutability.

This extends to the spaces and places the departed once occupied. These spaces in the reaches of our minds and world around us are connected by memory and consciousness. Intangible reservoirs of emotion and meaning which live on in physical planes we do not have extended access to, but are offered brief glimpses of.