Now and Then

My response to an exhibition prompt from Artist and friend Daniel Djuro-Goiricelaya for Now and Then at el Patio d mi Casa in 2018.

When thinking about the proposed idea of "now and then," I instantly thought of time and its inherent structure. I started to consider that children must learn what an hour or five minutes looks and feels like. How do we keep time without phones and clocks? How is time internalized in the human body? The first thing I thought of was the breath. So, I decided to record myself breathing. I also like using the body as a landscape and removing any sexual or spiritual connotation by laying flat on the floor and cropping the framed. Keeping with my interest in spaces and moments between abstraction and figure, teetering in that ambiguity, I cut the image not to tell you exactly what was happening. I'm not particularly eager to feed you an image, and I want you to have to slow down and investigate. Much of my work comes back to an interior examination and using myself as a model without dealing with self-portraiture directly.