An Imagined State in Which Everything is Perfect

An object is balanced, stationary in the air, suspended - no other movement is allowed, there is only one state in which object might become perfect, there is only one state that creates balance. Minimalist and de-contextualised objects create an illusion that floats between reality and dream. The object is transformed into the metaphorical subject and the black space behind it, unknown. A sheet of A4 paper and string through the presence of light become shape and line; photograph and abstraction. The paper as a surface is the subject here. Through the photographic process, the 'thingness' of the paper is celebrated, as if to defy the immateriality of the digital revolution. Files, which materialistically could never exist without first being printed onto a sheet of paper. "Ontologically, traditional images are first-degree abstractions, since they were abstracted from the concrete world. Technical images, for their part, are third-degree abstractions; they are abstracted from texts, which in turn are abstracted from images which were themselves abstracted from concrete world" (V. Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography). As technology is advancing at speed, it may be worth to pause for a moment to address this chasm. These allegorical images work to counter the constricted freedom of thought in an overly bureaucratic society, controlled by seemingly invisible, economic and political forces.