Regard It Like A Dove is a medium-format photography, digital sculpture and written word hybrid constructed like a quilt, stitching together and layering time, memory, and medium. The series presents medium-format photographs made on my grandfather’s Rolleiflex, and combines them with digital sculptures. The photographs depict natural scenes spliced out of Central Park, which holds innumerable memories for the millions of visitors that have traipsed its grounds. The photographs come without context or action, and so, act like stages upon which the digital sculptures and written words can “perform,” interacting with the environment around them, an environment they have never and will never exist in. The pieces fuse together the past, present and future with the pictorial x, y and z axes of the scene, interjecting figures and stories that never existed. Contrasting these more conceptual elements, a piece of writing describes the emotional experience of contending with memories and narratives, ruminating on the habit of construction and obsession, and the importance of accepting internal and external circumstances. The three mediums compliment and contrast each other, creating a dialogue between historical and contemporary practices. Furthermore, they build upon one another, weaving a warbling and wiley tale that seems to constantly add layers on top of itself, interpreting and reinterpreting, disrupting while simultaneously synthesizing narratives that never occurred.
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