APORIA
This series of black and white photographs began while I was sitting at the counter of the Triangle Cafe in West Oakland watching the cook’s repetitious dance along the edge of the grill. I asked if I could photograph her work. She invited me back and I began shuffling alongside her, focusing my camera on the geometric landscape she orchestrated out of eggs, sausages and other breakfast items.
Aporia, the title of this series, is a term used by Socrates in Plato's 'Meno'. It refers to a state of being in which someone is shown they do not know what they thought they knew and in turn they are inspired to seek further knowledge.
This series is about seeing our familiar world in unfamiliar ways. The images are as mundane and simple as humorous and beautiful. They are as ominous and dark as absurd and safe. These shifts in perspective underline my interest in the ambiguous, and yet energizing, potential of photography.
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