Ouroboros

Ouroboros sets the cosmos as a stage to locate the margins of our perceptual understanding. This work of photography and installation portrays a repetitive loop between looking towards outer-space and attempting to understand and internalize our planet.

Ouroboros, a term which refers to the intertwining makeup of the universe, sets the cosmos as a stage to locate the margins of our perceptual understanding. This work of photography and installation portrays a repetitive loop between looking towards outer-space and attempting to understand our planet. In some ways, a search for an other-place, or a non-place, as in the tradition of Foucault’s heterotopia. I pair images of people, scientific tools, and interiors, alongside images of abstracted landscapes of earth (or elsewhere). Grounded in an intense curiosity of outer-space, I interrogate the need for scientific ordering, challenging our insatiable need for control over our surroundings. These concepts of seeing, both near and far, can elicit fear, wonder, ownership, and future-building.

Through revealing an allure towards knowledge and order of the objects we intend on controlling; I explore the limits of our perception and understanding of the world in which we inhabit. In what sense can these places or things be truly seen or observed? How massive are they? The images, like our vision, are meant to obfuscate and confuse as much as they are meant to leave the viewer in awe. The work calls into question how we fashion the world around us based on the draw and intensity of outer-space and science-fiction; and I lead the viewer down a path of either uneasiness and dread, or a future built on living with a healthy, collective, and sensational environment.

This book was made and printed in an edition of 10 in late 2024. The book is sewn and there are intermittent red pages creating little chapters within the overall story. The materiality of the images move, sometimes subtly and sometimes not, from a hardness and coldness, to a softness and lightness, in a hope, or perhaps plea, for survival and care on our planet.