lun.r.008
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
Y E A R O F T H E R A B B I T
2023-2024
Year of the Rabbit
A year of both caution and great leaps forward, self-care and sacrifice, quietude and opportunity. One such opportunity arose from my return to commuting via public transit after more than a decade. This allowed me to take this cycle of the lun.r project from the small radius of our home out into the wider world. The sun emerged as a secondary subject* (but of course has always been a central presence), and a conceptual framework evolved organically. Switching from my bulky DLSR rig to an iPhone as the primary capture device** was both a practical and artistic choice. Conceptually it felt important to pull these mobile images away from the wholly digital, instantly shared environment of social media and turn them into a printed form first. Instead of documenting particular astronomical events determined in advance, pictures were made serendipitously where- and whenever heavenly bodies were encountered in daily life. A more traditionally photographic, ambiguous, spontaneous and diaristic record emerged of the time in this place. 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, trying to build a sensible narrative, acceptance and escape rolled in one constantly spiraling system - opportunity and quietude, sacrifice and self-care, advancement and caution…
*particularly in the summer when wildfire smoke in the atmosphere made it possible to capture images with a mobile camera that usually require specialized kit
**with exceptions because it isn’t really a rule until you have an exception
^see**