Brian is an artist who feels every photograph is a self-portrait, knowingly or unknowingly.

That one’s viewfinder is also their mirror.

All light traces back to a common point in time and space.

We weren’t separate then; We aren’t separate now.

is an experiment

in playful

remembering.

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and then I came across this toy camera at a thrift store. It was made of brightly coloured plastic. Yellow, red and blue. I felt such a magnetic desire to bring it home with me, so I did. There was an invigoration, urging me to explore, to imagine, to stretch and shift my perspective. All big words to say: I wanted to play.

Eventually something began to emerge, and I produced the photograph on the left.

Sometime shortly after that I was met serendipitously by the photograph on the right, from my childhood, that I had no conscious recollection of.

It’s like I got into a game of hide and seek back then and forgot I was playing, only to find myself by surprise through a viewfinder.

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