UNTOGETHER

No matter how many years I spend with my partner, there is a certain boundary between us. The boundary is not only a metaphor in a spiritual connection, which is the more physical meaning to me. I sometimes experience a moment of dissolving the boundary, and yet I cannot be a part of him. Our bodies, which fail to be one remain two individual beings. The moment of unity never lasts long. A sense of togetherness is all an illusion. “Untogether”, depicts my desire and passion to our bodies. I sometimes experience our souls become one. However, it’s impossible for us to exist as a single object. The obvious truth that human beings never are able to be together physically even if we can be together mentally, makes me frustrated, since I’ve always wanted to be one with his body. I explored our physical interaction by visualizing a mental relationship that I’ve been holding. It is also one of the ways to experiment our relationship. I used film with ISO 3200 on this particular project to gain a lot of grains and lose detail, since I did not want to have crispy detailed certain boundary between our bodies. I wanted to dissolve our boundary as much as possible. As the project going on, I realized “Untogether” turned out “together” as a piece of work.