Centralizing around the nature of perspective, Path was created as an experimental exploration around the interplay between realism and illusion, and how the condition of subjectivity may play a role in the spectrum of such nuance. Understood as both, psychological and physiological shifts in perception, relative to one’s position in time and space, this piece represents a dualistic interpretation, creating parallels between the internal landscape of the psyche and the external landscape of the environment which surrounds it. Alleviating the viewer of myopic observation, I use panoramic perspective within this piece as a means of defying traditional observation, encompassing multiple points of view within a single frame, inferring an inherent ability to encapsulate a wider point of view. Among the chaos and contradiction of concrete crescendos and vacant intervals, light and shadow depict the depth and dynamism of pure potentiality within this piece. Surrounding the viewer in a sea of contingency, previewing a potentially infinite scape of staircases and passages, I invite the viewer to consider the ways in which paths may present themselves within their own lives, in often unconventional and unexpected ways. Initiated through photographic practice, capturing various staircases around Toronto, the images were later pieced together in post-production, then further illustrated and enhanced to capture a greater sense of realism, depicting a world, photographically, which could otherwise not exist without my intervention, perspective, or subjective experience.
