Anything Worth Doing | PhMuseum

Anything Worth Doing (working title) is an ongoing physique of labor that tries to align an emotional expertise with a geographic one. Looking at household trajectories, emotional entanglement and divergent paths.

I’m from the west.  I moved round loads till I didn’t. Now, as an alternative of the Pacific at hand, it’s the Atlantic.  I used to {photograph} to extricate myself from conditions. I was closed off, flighty, scared.  I received sober and the world unfolded with solely benevolence.  I picked up the digital camera once more.  I regarded backward and commenced to grasp development.  Every picture is now a tether, is now a gap, and my life will get wider.  There’s loads I didn’t take note of all these years, and I’d prefer to stroll that again.  I didn’t put a number of weight on the concept of dwelling, however now I’d prefer to construct one out of photographs as a result of I can really feel its weight. I misplaced a pal and gained a way of urgency completely different from the one we might have acknowledged in one another that stored us transferring. I’m making work to reclaim what I misplaced or by no means needed to start with; full circles, a brand new elegiac language for love and longing, lifting up rocks, holding a gradual gaze, combating velocity and rejecting fast value determinations, not realizing. I wish to see all of it once more with new eyes and new grace.  To reconfigure the narratives I watched myself play out all through early maturity and the weather of flight and return that run by my household historical past.  To give weight to the areas I moved by, and to acknowledge how simply issues might have shifted.