Take Half
(2022-Present)
From an early age, we are taught about fairness and trying to approach situations with a sense of equality. However, the world is anything but, and even on the rare occasion it is, it doesn’t last. Things are constantly in motion, constantly in and out of chaos. What was once even is now lopsided again, until it’s not. One of the first rules we learn in photography, until we learn to break those rules, is not to place our horizon in the middle. It makes the experience of the photo dull and pedestrian. In this ongoing series, I am encouraging myself to see in halves, the boundary between this side and that, to ignore the rule, and to see what world(s) we can see when everything is equal. What I have found is that equal halves aren’t always equal. That halves don’t represent each other, only themselves. And that when we divide, we keep what we have on our chosen sides so all we are really doing is highlighting the have and have not. Where has that ever left us?