Seizure

As I navigate this period of US governmental chaos and the onset of my children’s adolescent years, Seizure is a photographic response to personal and political events and conditions that are outside of my control.

As I navigate this period of United States governmental chaos and the onset of my children’s adolescent years, Seizure is a photographic response to personal and political events and conditions that are outside of my control.

It is in some ways a conversation with a book of the same title by artist Mark Wyse, an old friend, who juxtaposes his own photographs with archival and found ones. He describes feeling a mental seizure when looking at photographs – as he "sees the world, but has a specific thought." His "body projects onto the photograph new attachments, new thoughts that have nothing to do with the image."

In which direction do photographs function? Do we take the image in and absorb it, or does it absorb what we project onto it? Is it an experience of layers, of multiple conversations happening at once side by side?

The Mayo Clinic describes a seizure as a sudden burst of electrical activity in the brain. It can cause changes in behavior, movement, feelings and levels of consciousness.

Can photographs do the same?