How Destined We Are For Grief
2024
12” x 18”
Archival Photographic Print Collage
$700 | Inquire for purchase here
The camera is a body, a body I would argue with similarities to a black hole. Bending light and stretching time. Musing upon this I consider how - it stretches the time in which we experience a moment . A perception of a single moment stretched into a photograph or image therefore frozen in repetition , stuck in a gravitational pull of its own event horizon. Its entrance beyond the point of no return. trapped eternal circling just before the moment of disappearance or the moment of potential freedom. The imprisonment of light held together by a singularity. Our realities in the concept of eternity - infinitely dense, infinitely small . A collection of mass that can tear at the threads.
The act of photographing in my experience parallels our bodies processing the light we are and the light we perceive.
Sonia Litynskyj
she/they | Romeo, Michigan
Critical Stuff Member
Artist Statement: I have gravitated to exploring photography theoretically rather than its use as a tool alone. As a result, I am left with the philosophical act of photographing while contemplating its physicality and how this might relate to an exploitive desire to understand and obfuscate perception through visual detail.
As a tool that captures and manipulates light, I also found parallels in the function of black holes, mass and gravitational pulls. A majority of my photographs of image making has always contained aspects of performance. After years of decoding myself in the image I found the draw to existing within the photograph was not a vain attempt but a way to process grief.