A Rubber Boot, a Mailbox, a Phonebook
A Rubber Boot, a Mailbox, a Phonebook is an exploration of the material and technological limitations that shape the creative process, promoting experimentation and improvisation.
The series chronicles a progression of photographic discoveries oriented through vernacular objects, questioning if photographic curiosity is dependent on its technology or observational subjectivity. Using a pinhole camera, a found object has been photographed, then transformed into a pinhole camera itself and used to photograph a subsequent found object, which then becomes a pinhole camera in turn. This methodology repeats, each image indexed by the unique characteristics of the previous camera's physicality.
The cameras pose an experimental question: can this object take a picture? The results produced by the cameras answer with the state of their image. These photographic objects are newfound evidence of the cameras' somatic role in a causal investigation.
(2020)