Pale gray-green leaf with radiating veins and a perfectly circular hole cut through its center, photographed against a soft, blurred green background.

Almost Nothing

Ahram Park

5/17/2019 – 6/19/2019

In Words: Almost Nothing

Sometime after the election, I began cutting leaves and photographing them. A small impulse to make something visible again. After many walks, I would mark sites of potential, choosing a trajectory but lacking an objective.

The pictures describe a world that you and I occupy, full of plants— many of them just weeds. My interventions left marks that we may recognize but communicate something unknown; they describe decisions shaped to our visual language, but without a clear message. A feeling that both acknowledges and denies my impermanence.

Through the looking glass, my city is a forest—an unforgiving but extraordinary place. At its core, it is continuously shifting. Over the years, I have developed my practice to adapt to the conditions of life. This iteration of pictures was confined by space, but grew in possibility.

Ahram Park, 2019

Location: Haw Contemporary Stockyards

Pale gray-green leaf with radiating veins and a perfectly circular hole cut through its center, photographed against a soft, blurred green background.

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