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Court Reflections
In the midst of the isolation and dramatic changes brought on by COVID-19—as well as by the evolving political landscape—I find myself struggling to find the words to describe what I am experiencing and feeling. I know I am not the only one. In response, I have been turning ever more strongly toward photography, which has often sustained me in the past.
For the last two years, I have been making photos on a rain-soaked basketball court in Kakaako. The reflections arising in the puddles there can seem abstract or realistic. They combine with shadows and physical objects to create surreal collages. They often compress far away flowers or buildings into one scene. What I see is different from what others see, and it is generally not real in any factual sense. My photos combine nature’s remnants, whether leaves or flowers, with the urban landscape. What’s reflected there varies radically from day to day and is abstract enough to be subject to a variety of interpretations, political, emotional, and otherwise. In a world turned upside down, the juxtapositions express exactly the unreality and the confusion that I feel. There I find the nuance that political and medical discourse often lacks. I can start to explore what lies below the surface in my own world and in the world at large.
