chronic flux (2003 - 2005)
artist statement

Analyzing the subjective authority of the photographic medium and the notion of time, this body of work is a chronicle of thoughts recorded in photographs that emphasize a phenomenological perception of the world. I aim to explore the concept of mechanical time versus personal/psychological time as counterpoints inherent to photography.

The things and the ways we remember are akin to photographs insofar they are subjective decisions made to create a certain cohesive narrative. My images denote more the memory of a thought than the memory of an event. Archival gelatin silver prints accentuate the notion of a reflective state; as in-camera multiple exposures enable a narrative of instants comprised and fused within one photogram.

On the other hand, mechanical time, like the photographic act, implies an attempt for order. Time and date of every exposure are too recorded. Such information is an organizational device that not only shows the moment of each snap of the shutter, but also situates the thought in the time of its conception as it materializes on film.

What my work supplies is not simply a record of the past but a new way of dealing with the present, since reality is known by its traces.