nothing | something
November 2022
When you hear the word nothing, what do you see? When you hear the word something, what do you see?
Do you visualize the word nothing as an empty and blank space, where you are truly thinking of nothing? Or do you see a person, someone you hate, someone who has wronged you? Do you visualize a feeling, a memory of when you disregarded your true emotions to not burden someone? Do you think of nothing as something that has value? Would you use the descriptor word, nothing, as a way to devalue someone or something?
Do you visualize the word something as a presence taking up space? Something that is real? Something tangible? Worth it for you to acknowledge it?
Why do we use the word nothing as a way to describe, disregard, to make a value? Does a person, emotion, or object deserve to be seen as nothing, or does it have to prove itself real that it is worth being seen as something?
Process: Scans of archival photos printed on transparency paper as a negative. Archival negatives were then placed on top of RC enlargement paper while a 35 mm film negative was enlarged with the archival transparency paper to create a double exposure.