STATEMENT
The world does not hurry to become meaning.
After a thing is named, it begins to shrink. It is placed into use, experience, judgment and explanation, becoming something we think we already know.
Before Naming stays earlier: before meaning falls into place, before looking turns into conclusion, before the world is taken as ours. The objects, light, fire, water, mist and plants here do not hurry to explain what they are. They appear, and at any moment withdraw from appearance.
The work is concerned with indeterminacy. Before things become meaning, there is a brief moment in which they do not belong to anyone and do not obey explanation. That moment is short, but sharp enough to remind us that the world does not exist because we understand it.
01-06
Objects and Surfaces
Stone, walls, leaves and objects remain in their own silence, not yet taken over by use.
The most forceful moments often occur before language comes close.
07-12
Light, Water, Mist
Light, water and mist make the scene unstable, and let judgment slow down.
These photographs do not offer arrival. They preserve passage.
13-18
Plants, Night, Fire
Some places become poorer once explained. Fire, night and plants leave passage, not answers.
Work Index
Eighteen photographs gathered here for returning and close viewing.
The world does not exist because it is understood. It comes before our language and continues after language fails.