EMOTIONAL ANASTOMOSIS (2025)
Jack Henry | ARGUS
Emotional Anastomosis, 2024
Set of Seventy Silver Gelatin Prints, 8” x 10”
Anastomosis is a connection or opening between two things that are normally diverging or branching, such as between blood vessels, leaf veins, or streams. Such a connection may be normal or abnormal; it may be acquired or innate; and it may be natural or artificial. We, as humans, often express any emotions we feel in the moment. What happens when we sit there in those streams of emotions? Do we become numb or void? Do we succumb to those overwhelming feelings? Or do we just simply remain in a limbo-like state? A ‘Grey area’ is a term in which we use to describe those very indescribable feelings or spaces, the series ‘Emotional Anastomosis’ attempts to physically show what it can be like existing in an emotional ‘grey area’, constantly phasing through the array of emotions we feel.
Often, when individuals experience a ‘grey area’, they feel alone or isolated, this is represented in the images with a single subject and dark negative space. Additionally, the series and more specifically the subject holds a higher tonal range, this helps physically show the ‘grey area’ that the subject is experiencing. As an adjacent project to ‘Statuesque Eclosion’, ‘Emotional Anastomosis’ is a set of 70 silver gelatin prints that take a deeper look at the inner workings of an individual experiencing vulnerability and concealment, more specifically those feelings that occur when breaking free of any constraints put onto an individual by means of self-infliction or external pressures.
