How Should I Move Through this World
Blocked passages, turned figures, patched structures. These are some of the first images in How Should I Move Through this World. The environment we see here seems hard to navigate, but populated with people very intent on doing so, individuals each in pursuit of a variety of goals. It is this idea of individual movement and motivation that drives the series forward and invites each viewers’ unique interpretation.
This is a vision of chaotic and unpredictable possibility. Adolescent dreams give way to adult abstractions and warning signs do not always aid in navigation. The mood of the piece stretches, at times ambivalent and hesitant and, at others, jubilant and full of movement, reflecting the unpredictable nature of life. This spectrum of expression provides a look at the instigation and the outcome of these individual pursuits, if leaving to the viewer’s imagination the reasons for the pursuit in the first place.
Shot around the world on iPhone (the common vernacular of the traveler), the series of locations depicts my own very unique voyage through the world as well. The images can be disquieting and depict a world of anonymity and stifling systems. In science, systems theory is employed in an attempt to gain a better understanding of the complex relationships formed by system interaction. A reverse method is employed here, as the pieces of the systems are unravel and presented through the lens of my own perception.