distant moments

distant moments is an installation of thirty-two individual sheets of silver gelatin paper hung on opposing walls in a patched timeline. i have continued carrying a sheet of photographic paper with me daily, this has become a constant in my circadian ritual. the images in distant moments lose uniformity through the candid display of overlapping of dates. i sometimes forget a piece of paper and it exposes alongside the next, touching one another in my pocket. i have now abandoned the act of dating the images, and with only my mind to take me back to the individual moments and day of exposure, i have come to realise it is impossible to identify these days in my memory. there is no consistency in sizing or algorithm for choosing the dimensions of the photographic paper i use daily. i source from areas of convenience, sometimes reaching for a piece of paper in a pack on my bedside table, in my lounge, or my studio. there is no pattern to understand these movements. just an abstracted timeline of what i am presenting as my movements, physically documenting the days of my year.

this is the first full installation where the images are no longer fixed. continuously changing when hung for display, altering and deepening in tones as they are viewed and sit in the light. slowly my bodily fluids of sweat, spit, and dust merge deep into the paper. where the mundane traces move so far into my past, the durational outcome results in a blank image.