Container

The subjects of this project are containers, and events that reside in them. The negative space in empty vessels always affects what it holds. Shape and content are eternally tied with each other. One could say that this interdependence of two realities manifests perfectly in the fit of the fetus inside the womb. Even though the containers I photograph actually provide limits to the stuff inside them, my idea is to create pictures where inner regions suggest a more expansive space. I think that a lot of what I am after is to create little theaters where fabulous things may happen. I’m interested in the way limitations can sometimes become springboards to freedom. It is this conviction that drives much of my work in general.

“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.”

– Lao Tzu

“We poets struggle with non-being to force it to give yield being; We knock upon silence for an answering music. We enclose boundless space in a square foot of paper; We pour out deluge from the inch space of the heart.”

– Lu Chi