Jet Lag Disorder (Ongoing)
Text I: Murmuring in Your Right Ear
Text II: A Photographer with No More Regrets
“But let us not talk of facts. No one cares about facts anymore. They are mere points of departure for speculation and exercises in creativity. In school we are taught Doubt, and the Art of Forgetting—especially forgetting all that is personal and local. We live in time, which is successive, but we try to live sub specie æternitatis. There are a few names from the past that are still with us, though the language tends to forget them. We avoid pointless precision.”
— A Weary Man’s Utopia, Jorge Luis Borges
Liquify (2015 - 2017)
This photography project examines the individual’s complexity and gender fluidity. It has two intertwining threads: one that might be thought of as storytelling, and the other as a kind of a meta-commentary about the medium of photography in and of itself.
Everything Is Found Wanting
Collaboration Piece by
BJ Beck
Madyha Leghari
Emily Fan Yang
We undertook the following collaborative work with the intent to challenge familiar grounds for each of us and subsequently, extend these through a sharing of skillsets and conceptual concerns. We were also interested in examining traditional notions of authorship and ownership while maintaining an immediacy of materials and making.
“Everything is Found Wanting” is the result of layering and slightly transforming our distinct modes of making. One of us painted an intimate snowscape which was photographed and printed in a much larger size. The digitization and enlargement of the photographic gesture served both to mechanize it and ironically make is looser and more expressive, thus setting a stage between the abstract and the representational. The stillness of this painterly photograph was counteracted with a looped video projection of a female character aimlessly flitting through the snowscape and lending it a feeling of timelessness and disquiet. The two-dimensionality of both painting, print and video was then counteracted by the plasticity of text. Repetitive lines spelling out ‘Everything is found wanting’ hang at a distance from the image, obstructing projected light and casting a shadow text on the print. Thus, the non-pictorial and non-representational format of the text unconventionally introduces dimensionality.