Persistence of Vision is an ongoing study in the permanence and impermanence of the photographic image and its connection to personal mortality and memory. This all stems from an interest in arguing both sides of the “photograph as truth“ statement. The philosophical paradox of truth and fact, and the fluidity of the concepts themselves.

Through the use of alternative, experimental and unfixed process, this work plays in the permanence, fragility and physicality of photography as both a medium, and a system of thinking. Most photographic processes face a finite life once creation has taken place, with natural fading or corruption occurring over time. In some limited cases, healing is possible (cyanotypes for instance, having natural regenerative abilities), or rebirth and recreation though artificial intelligence and computational photography. The subject matter directly interfaces with these concepts, healing, fragility, identity and memory, among others.

The camera is often called a window to the world and what is captured is considered a record. I propose that it is nothing of the sort, but only a shadow, a faint memory or echo, stripped of emotional and environmental context.