This body of work includes several unique type C contact prints (photograms) created in a color darkroom using long exposures. My interest in cameraless photography came from desire to capture not a “decisive moment”, but a time lapse, a movement or transformation of fragile organic objects caught on a light-sensitive surface. One of my inspirations was to watch the making of precious sand mandalas that take days, if not weeks, of intense labor, and, once completed, are destroyed without any regrets, as a symbol of impermanence. Essentially, even the sharpest, most beautifully composed glossy color image fails to represent reality because it’s trying to hold on to something that’s impossible to grasp.
