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G.O.N.E

 

In Geologies of Nowhere Epoch, or G.O.N.E, I explore the materiality of photography and spaces, as described by David Harveys, “spaces of capital, geopolitical tension, of hope, of memory, or of ecological interaction.” Material space is represented in the rocks, cinder blocks, drywall, and wood that I’ve gathered from the city and my father’s construction job. The materiality of photography is rendered in the array of genres depicted in this project, including documentary photographs, studio-based work, transfers, and assemblages; some photographs are digitally enhanced, while others are analog images. The combination of photographic and construction materials serve as the building blocks of this work. The series does not stick to one formulaic aesthetic for cohesion in order to represent the phenomenological, poetic, and personal nature of documenting the changing nature of my hometown into a global city. This work poetically remixes philosophical queries of matter-space-time by exploring the local geologies, nowhere as a space (in which ubiquitous architecture monopolizes the skies, e.g. high rises), and the epoch of the anthropocene. The work incites viewers to notice their surroundings before they are gone.