Impossible

It's an impossible story. Perhaps a dream, perhaps a love story, or perhaps any other story the images and their captions might bring to mind. There is no puzzle to solve, only an experience to step into, where everyone is free to find something that resonates with them and imagine their own story.

Each photograph is accompanied by a sentence. Read in sequence, the captions form a poem that runs through the series like a fragmented narrative.

I began this work during the pandemic, initially as a side project, before it gradually took on a much greater significance. The photographs, taken in New York over the years, carry subtle traces of the city: an interior, a street, the banks of the Hudson River. Places and atmospheres emerge without ever imposing a specific setting on the narrative.

To create these images, I used whatever camera I had to hand at the time: a DSLR, a compact camera, an iPhone, or even a frame extracted from an iPhone video.

I print them on Arches 88 watercolor paper using image transfer. Despite the variety of cameras and capture methods, this process gives the series a cohesive visual character. Combined with my color palette, the blur and shallow depth of field in some images, it also gives the series a dreamlike quality. The paper's texture and the variations inherent in the transfer contribute to its uncertain, elusive atmosphere.