hannah drum
liz ramsey
caylie merritt
tyrees mosely
sarah salmon
Lightness of Being
2025, Archival inkjet print on matte photo paper, Dimensions variable
The body repeats itself. A breath, a gesture, a moment- relived again and again, suspended in time. Cells regenerate continuously, just as hair and skin renew themselves over cycles of days, weeks, and years. Yet, despite this constant renewal, something of the past remains.
I turn to the strange, undocumented parts of myself. Naked in front of the camera, contorting into something unfamiliar. I seek out the holes, the crevasses, the cavities.
It feels exploitative. I feel disgusting.
And yet, the space in front of the camera lens is oh so warm.
The shutter clicks.
Immortalized forever.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being sits at the edge of self-possession and surrender. Framed in synthetic hair, the abstracted body becomes an artifact of repetition, of recurrence. Nietzsche’s eternal return asks: If we had to live this moment forever, would we embrace it? Or resist it?
Through this work, I challenge that cycle. I obscure the body, deconstruct it, distort it, searching for something new in what has always been and forever will be.