The photographic form is one which is often taken to be irrefutable proof of existence, in contrast to a painting which can capture even that which does not exist. The instant film even more so – a moment, an instance, capturing and printing the space in the very moment of the recorded act taking place. With these transcriptions of existing spaces, whether intended or not narratives, personal or impersonal, get bound to these captures.
Existing within the cracks of the ‘authentic’ narratives that are made reality through these captures is the realm of the ‘what-if’s – a state that might have been, could have been, or even that which could never be, but that which the mind entertains itself with if it could be. This work seeks to explore those ‘what-ifs’ of the fancies of imagination, that awaken the most when traveling through unfamiliar spaces, by imposing them upon the existing realities of instant captures.