‘We Will Return To You’ is rooted in Jewish folklore, efficiency, narrative, and materials tradition. Drawing on traditions of storytelling, it explores how reminiscence and ritual reside and broaden in narratives, how symbols shift by reinterpretation, and the way mysticism threads by the mundane. The work explores how tales will not be solely advised, however embodied, reimagined, and returned to.
The pictures transfer between portraits and nonetheless lifes, every scene providing its personal type of narrative. In Curing, a hand sits distilled in a bag of salt water and hovering over a chair, evoking concepts of preservation, stillness, and remembrance. The venture usually considers how narrative lives within the physique. In Telling You, I sit within the gentle, mouth open, as a mirror inside displays a burst of daylight again into the digital camera. The glint of sunshine hovers behind the throat as a visible interruption that references oral storytelling, reflection, utterance, and revelation.
My physique is each speaker and medium. I consider gentle as a recurring character all through the work; it has a voice that shifts, sharpens, interrupts, and transforms. She casts lengthy shadows, illuminates pores and skin, and lends every picture a way of heightened presence.
Perhaps, too, it’s a technique to visualize the concept of the divine shifting by the mundane. In some ways, gentle is a type of storytelling in these pictures: it directs consideration, withholds, and divulges.
Ritual objects seem all through the venture not simply as symbols, however as punctuation marks that shift tone, mark transition, or reshape the stream of a visible sentence. These objects are recontextualized, usually pulled from their main use and located inside uncanny, surreal environments. I’m enthusiastic about how objects can maintain narrative weight, how they act as touchstones for each reminiscence and creativeness.
The venture additionally engages with textual content. The accompanying guide, revealed by Saint Lucy Books, weaves a brief story between the photographs. Like the images, the story slips between previous and current, fantasy and reminiscence. It displays Jewish storytelling traditions that honor each written and oral varieties, and invitations a layered, open-ended expertise the place the images communicate to 1 one other, and to the viewer, in echoes.
Finally, We Will Return To You is about enlargement and continuity. It asks how Jewish tales reside on, not simply by preservation, however by reinterpretation, by embodiment, by return. It explores what it means to maneuver by time with sacred weight, and the way efficiency, gesture, and picture can carry ahead the rooted narratives whereas remaining open-ended sufficient for brand spanking new meanings to emerge.
‘We Will Return to You’ is accessible by Saint Lucy Books.
