SKY CONSTELLATIONS

2019-2020 // 120MM MULTIPLE EXPOSURE // BROOKLYN [USA]

Our external world is reconstructed within us as we pass through it. Its impact goes beyond its ability to shape our exterior experience; it also transforms our interior spaces—our personal relation to the world around us. How this transformation occurs and what it builds in us is at the heart of my practice.

I make sense of the world by rearranging it. Objects on my desk, lines in a poem, spaces in a photograph. Recently learning that I am autistic, I am currently coming to terms with what this means for me both personally and artistically. Looking back at my work, how has my autism shown up in my way of experiencing and capturing the world around me? 

‘Sky Constellations’ reveals aspects of how I view the world around me, and shows my ability to reconstruct it on film. Turning the camera towards the sky and using a combination of multiple exposure and physical masking in front of the film allow me to attempt to capture the thick nothingness of the night sky, in new geometric compositions. This allowed me to build the work between myself and the subject—co-creating them as expressions of my inner geographies. In doing so I have found a way to express my inner geographies .

Juxtaposing photographs and poems creates a dialogue for the view/reader to join in. The poems aim at a reconstruction of language—a search for voice. The poems have internal logic that follows my obsession with aligning shapes and building new spaces. A dialogue between the poems and the photos opens the work to new views and interpretations.