VIOLENT RELAXATION
Ongoing
This developing work explores entangled past and presents through reframing the era of the Boring Billion and how the photographic can represent acts of mortogenesis, creative destruction, as eternal unseen collaborations. Presenting moments in cosmic time as both fractious and amalgamated through stretching scale and playing with relationships between photography and belief.
This developing work explores entangled past and presents through reframing the era of the Boring Billion and how the photographic can represent acts of mortogenesis, creative destruction, as eternal unseen collaborations. Presenting moments in cosmic time as both fractious and amalgamated through stretching scale and playing with relationships between photography and belief.
This work explores matter as an unstable, viscous field in which distinctions between micro and macro, terrestrial and cosmic, begin to collapse. Through processes of magnification, compression, and reconstitution, familiar forms are displaced beyond recognition, disrupting fixed ideas of scale, perception, and material stability.
Drawing on the deep-time conditions of the “Boring Billion,” the work reframes apparent geological stillness as a state charged with latent pressure, invisible movement, and the potential for transformation. Stability is understood not as absence, but as a suspended intensity shaped through ongoing processes of accumulation, rupture, and regeneration, where destruction and creation remain inseparable.
Images are constructed through expanded photographic practices that merge multiple temporal and spatial viewpoints, treating the photograph not as a fixed document but as an unstable, accumulative form. Structures of measurement and proof are invoked only to be unsettled, calling into question photography’s role in producing truth, belief, and coherence across scales.
Situated within posthuman and ecological thinking, the work decanter human perception, framing image-making as part of wider planetary systems. Through the transformation of materials such as slime and meteor forms, magnified, compressed, and reconstituted through tactile and digital processed, the work foregrounds matter as active and relational, revealing that what appears inert or distant is entangled within the same forces that shape both cosmic and earthly systems.