A Mark (Self-Portrait), 2017
Archival Inkjet print with Arcylic facemouth on Dibond
101.6 x 127 cm
Untitled (Flags), 2017
Inkjet Print Hahnemühle photo paper
120 x 79.8 cm or 70 x 46.7 cm
Celestial, Lake Michigan, 2017
Inkjet Print Hahnemühle photo paper, vintage poetry book
20 x 16cm
25 x 19.5cm
On Thanksgiving morning, 2016, I took a photo of Lake Michigan during my visit to Chicago, Illinois. Later that afternoon, I found a book written by a poet called Harriet Spar Schultz in a secondhand bookstore. Inside were poems published back in 1975.
When My Mind is Clear but My Body is Weak, 2016
Inkjet Print Hahnemühle photo paper
70 x 46.7cm
19.7 x 29.6cm
A set of 9
The series probes into the relationship between repetition and spiritual contemplation. Through capturing these repetitive lights, I aim to investigate how repetition possibly leads to physical fatigue and mental transcendence.
I Picked This Up, So When I'm Not Here, You Can Look At It, 2016
Instant Film, Pressed Flower
30.6 x 46cm,
16.3 x 16.3cm
A set of two
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