Drowning Is Not So Pitiful

Drowning is feared by many, but rarely does one fully understand the experience first-hand. Our perception of drowning is often limited to what is projected from the media. But, where film and television mostly depict drowning as a violent experience, stories from survivors recount feelings of panic quickly transforming into euphoria, as they begin to slip away in a state of narcosis - where the only pain that one survivor recalled, is that of being pulled from the water and forced to breathe again. The images within this series are of re-appropriated film stills that have been printed on cloth using the Kallitype process. While the images have been taken from the media, these cloth objects become experiential vignettes, where one ultimately accepts their fate. Kallitype Print on Cloth, Reappropriated Film Stills, 15x15