Idle Reveries
2023-2024
This series is a quiet play with everyday objects - cotton swabs, screws, scraps of paper - assembled into fragile structures that defy their usual roles. A hard object wobbles under the weight of an almost weightless one; something meant to hold is instead held in place. These makeshift assemblages exist in precarious balance, as if they could collapse at any moment.
The photographs were taken in natural light from a fixed point throughout the day, and the image taken at different times is applied to each object, condensing the shifting hues of natural light into a single image. Though the objects themselves are achromatic, they absorb color through this process, transforming themselves into ephemeral entities that exist only in the world of the photograph.
Unlike Accumulated Times or A Year in Form, which demand a kind of quiet contemplation, this series embraces imperfection as if offering generous permission to sleep in. The intention was not to construct something monumental, but rather to create objects that "cannot strive"-things that feel a little unstable, a little helpless. There is a certain tenderness in their awkwardness, an understated charm in their inability to fulfill their assigned roles.
In these delicate compositions I find a reflection of the quiet, fragile relationships I dream of - a space where even the weak, the unbalanced, and the makeshift are allowed to simply be.
