STILL SUSPENSION

Living in an eternal moving image

Still Suspension emerges from a time of imposed boundaries and restricted movement, a photographic exploration of the 2020-2021 period when invisible barriers reshaped our relationship with space and time. These images capture the tension between physical constraint and the mind's restless wandering.

Through deliberate compositions of everyday elements - windows framing distant landscapes, bodies in repose, isolated structures on empty beaches - the collection examines what happens when external journeys cease and internal ones intensify. These photographs aren't documenting stillness but rather revealing the subtle currents that move beneath apparent immobility.

The mundane becomes profound: a curtain filtering light, a solitary figure gazing outward, a rearview mirror reflecting open sky. These aren't mere settings but vital elements that anchor our experience during periods of stillness. When physical movement slows, perception sharpens, revealing the curved edge of a windowsill, light filtering through thin fabric, the solitary lifeguard station on an empty beach. These details, typically overlooked in daily unrestricted motion, become focal points of contemplation.

Still Suspension invites viewers to recognise how constraint paradoxically heightens sensitivity. The images create thresholds between inner and outer worlds, between isolation and connection. They capture moments where time seems to pause, allowing memory and imagination to surface with unusual clarity and resonance.

This work utilises limitations to reveal what becomes possible when we turn inward, finding unexpected depth in confined spaces and discovering how the smallest details can hold vast emotional landscapes. These photographs stand as quiet witnesses to our capacity to find meaning and beauty even when our movements are circumscribed by forces beyond our control.