Memento Mori

In her essay “Plato’s Cave,” Susan Sontag writes, “All photographs are memento mori.” And so they are. To each moment, there’s a beginning and an end. The photographic frame is emblematic of the boundaries we face in time, space and memory. Here, in these spontaneous expressions made with swipes of the camera and with long exposures—intentional camera movement—you can see how light flows like a liquid, repainting the world in interesting ways. And yes, these visual moments have already folded back into the paths that swirl behind us and are passed, but they are still visually sustaining to me.