Cotidiana* (or) Noticing, Present, Attention** (or) Breaking the Spell*** (or) Hand-Eye-Coordinates**** (or) Scrying Stone***** (or) Apophenia****** (or)
A 35mm VISUAL DIARY
Gleanings from a field of vision;
harvested from
context, place, and time.
There are no answers to be found upon shedding skins or lifting shrouds of illusion, only substrates of primordial questions. The empirical and theoretical are merely two sides of the same elusive coin. The occult, by definition, is hidden. The incarnate: an organic slime of blood and tissue perpetually slipping through the cracks in our perception.
Things might be otherwise.
We must seek solace somewhere in the in-between, straddling the literal and subliminal, or spend our finite spans in pursuit of the infinitely incomprehensible. If there are absolutes of existence they are avoiding our gaze: dancing, fluttering, oscillating outside our field of *vision,* lampooning our preposterous series of efforts to codify that which in light of itself cannot be contained (particularly from within). We have engaged in millennia of navel-gazing in an attempt to subdue the eternal with “knowledge” – a hazy and shifting shadow of Truth – and counterarguments.
We do not – cannot – speak the language of the cosmos.
This is a call to abandon, at least once in a while, this futile industry of *understanding.* Let us revel in the HERE and NOW as we elementarily understand them to be. Suspend all applications of categorical “-isms” and orphic interpretations in favor of simplicity.
These images confer one creature’s perspective: They represent little more than an effort to delay the inevitable entropy of memory and fulfill the impossible and insatiable desire to prolong an experience. they are an embrace of the terrestrial, day-to-day, humdrum, and routine–pulling moments of intrigue from the banal and familiar; glorification of the mortal & material; the intersection of observation/action, location, and testimony; a revelation of *things* thaumaturgically hidden; signs and wonders of the garden variety...
also: excerpts from the archives, memos, an origin point, context of a mo(ve)ment, peripheral details, surrender to presence, re-acquaintance with the defamiliarized, the omnipresence of beauty, intentional acceptance of circumstance (as distinct from resignation), subplot observations, preservation of phenomena, proof of existence, overturning familiar stones in search of inspiration, rejection of the pursuit of greener shades of grass, an achronological record, documentation of a life being lived in and of itself.
2017 - ad infinitum
updated: may 2025