A Form of Knowing
Photobook Collection
A Form of Knowing (excerpt)
This book hopes to capture the warm embrace of the gentle, benign banality that encircles us. These photos are not meant to be cold abstractions, intellectual exercises, or academic studies.
They are reminders of a fully embodied moment, the totality of feeling – light and shadow, yes, but also noise and quiet, crisp and stale air, the weight of your feet on the ground, the swaying of your hair in the late afternoon breeze, the memory of a love-stricken evening that does not feel as far away as it is.
This collection gives purchase to smaller, quieter moments in the hope of revealing a common knowledge unobtainable through other means. Their everyday-ness, their intimate familiarity renders them closer to ourselves than we may expect.
The form of knowing that these images reflect is a form that we all possess in that it extends beyond insight into the spaces themselves into a knowing of our collective lived condition and so, too, ourselves. There is an elegiac sadness on display, a kind of melancholy. Not one derived from dereliction or neglect, but from a recognition of some internal disquiet that often leaves us feeling separate from one another. A distance we long to close
This is a love letter to our commonality, a communion with the overlooked all around us.