CONC:depiction
- Date: 2009-2014
- Medium: Digital Photography and Composite Imagery
- Format: Pigment Ink Prints (8 works)
[catalog entry]
CONC:depiction is a photographic series consisting of eight works that function as a visual counterpart to the seven-part video cycle CONCENTRATIONS. Created between 2009 and 2014, the series was conceived in parallel with the video project but only fully realized after the final video installment was completed.
Each of the first seven images corresponds directly to one of the individual CONCENTRATIONS videos. These representations are not film stills in a traditional sense, but constructed images—drawn from a blend of production photography, staged reenactments, and composited material. Some were photographed independently for this project; others were generated from footage and elements used during video production. In this way, the series reinterprets the time-based experience of the videos as a set of distilled, symbolic impressions.
The final image in the series, CONC:depiction A, offers a quiet, distilled gesture—an encapsulation of the series’ emotional and formal vocabulary rather than a grand conclusion. Depicting the suited figure suspended in a fetal pose against black, it suggests a moment of withdrawal, containment, or potential rebirth. It is less a summary than an echo: a visual coda that acknowledges the transformations that came before without attempting to resolve them.
Presented as pigment ink prints, CONC:depiction is both a companion and a conceptual mirror to CONCENTRATIONS. It extends the project’s exploration of identity, transformation, and interior ritual into the photographic space—where time does not unfold, but is crystallized.
Selections from CONC:depiction
Left to right: CONC:depiction 2, CONC:depiction 3, CONC:depiction A.
These images are part of an eight-part photographic series responding to the CONCENTRATIONS video cycle.
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