The project centres around queer identity as it posits itself within realms of inherited masculinity, the Liminal rite, and the double. Drawing on the techniques of photography to manipulate time and space, the photographs string together a narrative that is inherently non-linear and perpetually falling. Time acts to shift the course of action, thought, and perception, while introducing an intimacy between viewer and image. Between being and becoming – the photographs present still life, landscape, and portraiture in ways that extend beyond initial interpretation and presentation, allowing for the creation of poetry and rhythm throughout the works. Focusing on research drawn from Victor Turner’s interpretation of the Liminal, and Virginia Woolf’s literary use of the multi-narrative, the work coalesces photographic ideals revolving around the Uncanny, bridging gaps between the abstract in the mundane. Working primarily with 5×4 photography, the works resonate with a pull between the past and the present, the archive and the contemporary. Perpetually falling in on themselves, they alternate perception and associate the autobiographical from several different perspectives.
“I think when you’re so used to living with fire inside of your mouth and flowers pouring from your chest – how are you supposed to be happy any other way? A sea of memories that you can’t escape. Waves constantly crashing over you, sinking to the floor and rising towards the sea endlessly. To be caught wandering in between these waves. To be on one end of the timeline. To become another. To be lost. To be othered. To be queer. To discover the eternal homeland – to renounce the purest feelings of my mothers love: to be in between Time: in between lives. And to find solace there. To find love – to find community. To be weathered. To be.”
