Cherry Picking
“Cherry Picking” traces a subtle unraveling where innocence slips into desire and the act of seeing becomes a kind of intrusion. Through an experimental process blending analog and digital techniques, including darkroom solarisation, digital reprinting, nontraditional enlargements, and the use of expired gelatin silver paper, the work inhabits a fragile space between image and impression, body and memory.
The photographs are abstract and intimate: the curve of a knee, an eye in close-up, a cherry evoking a breast, fish in the tank, windows pulsing with urban light. Filtered through solarisation, these images become unstable. Born of light, the images are simultaneously corrupted by it. Light is not simply illumination, but disturbance —a metaphor for both awakening and violence.
Each image exists in a liminal state where reversal and ambiguity merge, and identity and desire waver. The sudden intrusions of light fracture the images like disrupted memories, revealing how the act of seeing can both expose and unsettle. This tension probes the uneasy space where touch precedes understanding, and where being seen carries the weight of both vulnerability and quiet power.
“Cherry Picking” unfolds like a fevered recollection: fragile, overheated, and stained by wanting.