I want to go to a place where gravity is dead

Yeah. I know what you’re thinking. It’s been soooo long since my last update. Rest assured, I’m still alive. I’ve been incredibly busy and (among other things) I’m working on a series of experimental self-portraits which take their meaning from my very most personal and intimate journal entries. At first I was simply taking excerpts from my journal and literally placing the words in the photograph, but that began feeling cheesy and contrived. My focus has since shifted to a much more effective and sophisticated visualization process where it’s more about the concept itself and less about trying to plaster the words on top of an otherwise decent photo and still make it work. The photograph above stemmed from the thought: “I want to go to a place where gravity is dead”.

You can see below a selection of photos showing the process by which we made this, which includes a version I decided not to go with where I’m kind of falling into the tub from above.

p.s. Thanks to Caitie for being my first ever assistant on this series of images and making this photo happen in a quarter of the time it would take me to do it by myself.