Untitled 2024, artist-cut mat, pencil, frame, 20 x 24 in.
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Words were already taking hold of him 2024, Archival print, artist-cut mat (Unique), frame, 20 x 24 in.
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Images petrified her 2024, Archival print, artist-cut mat (Unique), frame, 20 x 24 in.
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A Sad and Insatiable Curiosity 2024, Archival print, artist-cut mat (Unique), frame, 20 x 24 in.
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Untitled 2024, artist-cut mat, pencil, frame, 20 x 24 in.
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Transfigured but trivial character 2024, Archival print, artist-cut mat (Unique), frame, 20 x 24 in.
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The Sweet Field of Human Contact 2024, Archival print, artist-cut mat (Unique), frame, 20 x 24 in.
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Bodies floating with difficulty 2024, Archival print, artist-cut mat (Unique), frame, 20 x 24 in.
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Untitled 2024, artist-cut mat, pencil, frame, 20 x 24 in.
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Untitled 2024, artist-cut mat, pencil, frame, 20 x 24 in.
×The Anonymous Shapes of Words is a series of photographic images of wild caves in the Midwest overlayed with a sequence of hand-cut mat board shapes and a complimentary set of figures of the cut mat boards. The work offers a superimposition of a formal language and a material language. Looking at the cave walls, where language and matter meet, points to the collapsed relationship between culture and nature and the emergence of formal language. This photographic project also invites an opportunity to rethink the tradition of North American Landscape Photography. Traditionally, the photographic apparatus was active in constituting the colonial gaze through its well-defined and privileged point of view, dominating the landscape as a manifestation of territory. However, the cave presents a situation where the boundaries of body, space, camera subject, and object dissolve into each other. The works are titled with fragments from Maurice Blanchot’s novel ‘Thomas the Obscure’ adding a literary layer to the form and the matter and setting up a stage of an ontological perplexity.