lun.r.008
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
Y o t R
2023-2024
A year of both caution and great leaps forward, self-care and sacrifice, quietude and opportunity. The return to a regular commute and inspiration from an epic National Parks road trip, led me to seek yet another approach to this project. The major changes was to take this cycle of the lun.r project from the one block radius of our home, out into the wider world. But along with this, I decided to use an iPhone (13 Pro max) as the primary capture device instead of my bulky DSLR rig.* In the process inspiration ebbed and flowed. Instead of forcing myself to document particular events, it became more spontaneous and diaristic. The sun emerged as a secondary subject (but of course it has always been a central presence).** Where- and whenever heavenly bodies were encountered, I created pictures instinctually, moving away from the intellectually constructed images of previous cycles to something more ambiguous, more photographic. The selection, editing, and sequencing of images became even more important, and a conceptual framework evolved organically. Guidelines such as a limit of one image per day^ brought focus and maintained flow in what soon became a composition of compositions, a repetition indicative of the drudgery of routine, yet dynamiized through the effort to keep seeing anew, acceptance and escape rolled in one constantly spiraling system - quietude and opportunity, sacrifice and self-care, caution and advancement, acceptance and escape… The only way out is through, and the only way time moves is still forward.
*with exceptions because it isn’t really a rule until you have an exception
**particularly in May and June when wildfire smoke allowed a type of capture usually impossible without specialized kit, let alone with a mobile camera.
^see*
