Photography, Collage. Contribution to the 2021 SF Camerawork Benefit Auction.

A photo of a sky, however pleasing, is not particularly novel. We post them to our stories, fill our camera rolls with sunrise & sunset, storms & strange cloud formations, but rarely do these images carry forward the weight and emotion felt at the moment they were taken. They become part of our own personal stock photo library. Yet we can't resist holding our cameras toward the sky like some sort of involuntary bodily function and clicking.

I often return to these images of mine to re-create what it was I felt in the moment through a process of deconstruction, color revision, & recomposition. The way blue feels in the top right evokes a different emotion than when it was in the bottom left; or suddenly cutting into the image with an inset of the image itself, warping, revising—even if gently—how it feels to look at some old photo of some random sky to revive a memory, recasting it as nostalgia from stock.