While Everyone Sleeps

While everyone sleeps”  A day on which you may see no one. The chirp of a bird you’ve never before heard. A warm wind beckons you to sleep. Night has come, and with it the stillness of all things. My small bedroom felt like an endless, unpopulated night, and in it I dreamed throughout my days and evenings. I wish I could seize this silence that would have never arrived here.  And all the while, the night continues.  / May 2020 By the height of the pandemic, living in isolation during at-home quarantine had become the inescapable new normal: Being alone had become synonymous with being. Based on my own psychology during this time, I attempted to reproduce my mind-scape by deconstructing single photographs, then reconstituting them using no additional outside photograph components.* After shredding a single photograph into several pieces, I combined them with objects available in my then-limited environment, such as daily household goods and things found on a walk outside. Photographs were then taken of the temporary structures formed from these three-dimensional arrangements. As signs of the pandemic’s eventual end began to appear, I started creating images in an attempt to recreate the bodies of the past as something new, using only a single photograph without other objects as supplementary parts. All components were photographed during the mandatory at-home quarantine period in New York of 2020.