Of the Expanse
PROJECT
Of The Expanse
Photographed across the state of Rajasthan in Northern India, the series considers the relationship between humans and the spaces they occupy.
The collection focuses on visualizing an impression of the Spatial Condition, a conceptual reference to the circularly oriented process through which space, both natural and intentionally arranged, affirms and challenges notions of the self.
The concept acknowledges that just as movement and rest cannot be determined without describing one object relative to another, humans require external objects to understand and define themselves. The space that such objects occupy, therefore, plays a crucial role as it not only influences the perception of those objects but also establishes a means to measure oneself against them. In this exchange space can be considered as a type of form itself — acting dually as an object within, and architecture for, the transfer of meaning among its contained elements.
Of the Expanse compositionally gathers these often distant elements and regards them as singular objects; like the partially revealed layers of a nesting-doll, each has its own patina and occupations (including the photograph itself), but are bound as constituents of a larger whole. With an emphasis on fading imprints and their iterations within architecture, reflections on mortality, time, and the human being (as both an individual and an expression of a species) quietly weave throughout the series.
The collection contains 32 photographs.
Editions 1/5, 1/8
MEDIUM Pigment Photographic Prints
SPECIAL THANKS: Nayantara, Shanti, and Girish Mahtre
