Photography is an ontological praxis using a body that experiences as a vessel. To record the overwhelming reality that the world exists as it does—without understanding or interpreting, without dividing phenomena into digestible segments or separating one from another—is an attempt to nullify the human instinct for meaning-making. Without this interpretation, cognition and fact are no longer disunited between subject and object in our minds. This is vertigo; this is a release.
When we access this colliding state, when we are just a body that experiences, consciousness recedes. Through becoming simply a carrier of senses, the body aligns itself as a part of the elements that construct the world. This state is not a destination, but a fluid, everlasting oscillation between the world of meaning and the world of sensing.
Photography is merely a record of light where this dissolution takes place in the flesh of the world. An image is the residue of a spark fixed on the surface of time like a membrane. Physicality dissolves as the breath goes in; the mind generates stories as the breath goes out. The body melts into the mass of the material, yielding to a new flow. To continue this breathing is what makes life possible, and eliminates the meaning of living.
