Fleeting
(2020 - present)
B/W film.
My ongoing series, Fleeting, captures nature, landscapes, sculpture, and ruins and explores themes of nostalgia, fairy tales, and myth-making. I appreciate how black-and-white film evokes an element of nostalgia and precarity, as if the viewer has fallen into the forgotten memories of the onlooker. A ruined castle sinks into the river, mottled shirts sway from a clothesline, a spiderweb shines with a velvet glimmertice.
When I think of the countryside, I think mostly of childhood — raised in rural Texas, I yearned for the hustle and bustle of city life. But now I feel deep, fond melancholy for a time I can never return to. I think of my grandparents’ farm, once full of life and nectar, which now stands barren because no one remains around to tend it. I try to underexpose my photographs ever so-slightly, so that details fall off into obscurity and vignettes envelope the frame. For me, this method grants the scene a haunted presence, so that one can almost feel the element of ghosts.
