Dream Together

Across several North American cities, I made candid photographs of people moving through parks, beaches, streets, markets, arcades, and nighttime gatherings. The photographs were made independently and only later brought together. In reviewing them, I recognized my repeated attention to gestures of play, performance, and contact: bodies leap, balance, pose, touch, kiss, shield themselves, and pass through crowds.

I selected eighteen photographs and ordered them through recurring gestures, colors, and directions of movement. The sequence opens with a crowded park split by RGB channel displacement, returns to daylight at a beach and basketball court, then passes through crowds, artificial signs, flash, performance, and night. The displacement came at the editing stage, after the photographs existed. Applied across pictures made months and cities apart, alongside images already shaped by flash and motion blur, it gives them a common surface. As the sequence proceeds, clearly defined bodies become repetitions, silhouettes, and trails of blue light.

The eighteen prints extend across one wall as a continuous frieze. Their changing dimensions and staggered heights carry the sequence’s shifts of scale and direction into the room. The installation gives encounters photographed separately one continuous movement, beginning in a crowd and ending with birds crossing the evening sky above dark rooftops.