Along the Plane of Immanence

"The plane of immanence is not a concept that is or can be thought, but rather the image of thought…" — Gilles Deleuze “This is this.” — Robert De Niro as Mike Vronsky in The Deer Hunter These digital pinhole photographs of the natural and manufactured world are merely that. The depicted landscapes and artifacts have no transcendent meaning, but simply allow the exploration of the "thisness" of the objects and of the relationships between them. There are no stories – profound or banal – surrounding these scenes except of the encounter of them itself. In these momentary events of experience by human subjects of the objects before us, these non-living individual objects are likewise experiencing us. Capturing these images helps me break back through into re-experiencing that place between chaos and conceptualization, that intersection of habit and immediacy that Deleuze calls a plane of immanence. The pinhole images seen through the viewfinder echo the chaos of the universe, while the digital process acts like a sieve, presenting an illusionary consistency to the chaos in the same manner that my own mental constructs attempt to territorialize that chaos.