This is an invitation. This is a practice that walks the motions of daily life and lives within the everyday. This is a manifestation of being present in the world around me: observing,‎ measuring,‎ dressing,‎ ‎ walking,‎ ‎ ‎ writing,‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ thinking,‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ listening,‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ waiting,‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ flying.

This is an attempt at placing language adjacent to a feeling which I do not know how to describe. The tao that can be named is not the eternal tao. When I say my work concerns phenomenology, what I am really saying is that I need you here next to me. Take the line ——— I am having a conversation with the wind, I want you to hear it.

This is a practice of listening. Listen intently, the instructions are in Chinese. The less you understand, the more you will know. Sara Ahmed says “Moments of disorientation are vital. They are bodily experiences that throw the world up, or throw the body from its ground.” Now here is a body worn by the sky. Here is a kite worn as a garment. Here is a passage where environment and self blur into one.

This is a practice of reorienting. Photography is easiest when you are not the one looking. The sun takes notes in cyanotypic hues, a sketch of my body, a still life. I can see myself from afar (I am sitting) and again (I am eating) and again (I am breathing) and again (I am in love). And isn’t this a form of making too? [yes/yes/yes/yes]