Sun Traps



The human being exists somewhere between the desire to touch the eternal and the impossibility of apprehending this, assembles words from distances and emotions, describes melodies with signs, fuses stars into images with invisible threads and gives names to them. These photographs are a random play of light and thought. Caught in a scrap of photographic paper, the light plays with perception and mood, and somewhere on the brink of black void draws metaphors for us.

In many of the world religions, the light is the source of every existence, it is knowledge, truth, joy, it symbolizes the void which gives birth to every thing… yet, there is black void, a shadow that never leaves the human being. This is how we exist between the light and our own shadow…

These photographs are the starting point of subjective experience, they help see something… inside ourselves and suggest the idea of our imaginary ‘omniscience’, based on the capability to identify objects by comparing them to what has already been seen. What I am concerned with is the loss of the naïve perception of the primitive man, unspoilt by millions of signs and symbols. Then, many things were new and one could admire the unknown or fear it instead of unconscious desire to pigeonhole it into some sort of system… ‘To think’ in feelings, to belong to the process, instead of perceiving life ‘though the lens of a camera…

 

Volha Savich, a series of 10(BW)+3(color)

digital print 2007