SLØRET, 2017

digital photograph, iPhone 6s

From January to May 2017, I lived and worked in an arts community made up of American students studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark. We collaborated on a final project, a zine meant to capture more permanently the transient feelings we experienced during that time. This was my submission. 

While photos are able to convey something or someone at a particular time, the never truly capture the entire context of a moment. This is true of these photographs in particular, which were all taken accidentally, either by myself, or others who had access to my phone camera. They span from August of 2016 to May 2017, a time that has covered thirteen countries, eight classes, two apartments, three romantic relationships, countless friendships, two (dead) basil plants, and over thirty blog posts I created chronicling all of it. The text over the images give exact information; latitude and longitude, followed by date and time. And yet despite this specific and detailed information, the photos gives very little in the way of what these places and these moments really felt like, or what they meant to me at the time, or what they mean to me now. Some I see and know exactly where they were taken. Others, I have only a vague recollection.

What meaning, then, can anyone else but me gain from them? They are here for that to be discovered.