Eye and Wound

How to translate the dark labyrinth of the mind?

Eye and Wound began as an attempt to reimagine Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis through the lens. I wanted to photograph the character's inner world but somewhere in the process, the distance between photographer and character collapsed. I was no longer observing. I was inside it.

The project spiralled into a blurred visual diary. Twenty images made with a lomography camera, a medium that distorts what it captures, that refuses sharpness, that bleeds at the edges the way a mind in crisis bleeds at the edges.

There are no faces in this work. But cracked glass, tunnels, rust, drains, blurred figures on sidewalks, night light streaking across wet surfaces. The world as seen through a mind that can no longer hold its own shape. Each frame exists somewhere between performance and confession.

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photography • lomography camera • 2013