count
artist statement

Count regards the passing of time as both a testament to endurance and permanence, as well as to fading and wasting away, i.e., every heartbeat takes us closer to our last. We are allotted a finite amount of birthdays, of breaths, of blinks of the eye, when that is gone our term is up. This inherent two-fold of human existence, this tragicomic nature of the life-span is a source of comfort and anxiety facing the unavoidable.      

In this photographic series, the speed function of the camera is overridden by a non-mechanical measurement of time that derives from durations within the human body and mind. The length of each exposure is determined by the arbitrary repetition of a mental or bodily action. The rate of said durations are made somewhat consistent by using a single source: myself, facing the lens and centered within the frame. These deadpan self-portraits were taken against landscapes where the seasons and the environment affect the phenomenological aspects involved in counting and waiting; thus bringing forth typological comparisons that go beyond scenery to focus on the measuring and the passing of time.