‘Emotional
anastomosis’
PHOTOS COMING SOON…
PHOTOS COMING SOON…
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.
‘Statuesque
eclosion’
'Contemplate'
'Introspect'
'Finding'
'Rise"
'Deface'
'Relinquish'
'Remnants'
Statuesque Eclosion (2024)
Jack Henry | ARGUS
Statuesque Eclosion, 2024
Set of Seven Silver Gelatin Prints, 11” x 14”
Eclosion is an emergence, specifically that of an insect from a pupal case when becoming something new. Inside, the insect is melting, metamorphosing and reforming into what it must become. Moments of solitude, whispers of growth and the promise of change, all melting together and on display for all to see. Cocoons or chrysalises are created for protection while a being is in its most vulnerable state, only emerging beyond the walls when it has refined the chaos it once was and physically manifested into a state it needs to become. The confines and pressures of society provide reasoning for encasing ourselves into a protective state―when we decide to grow beyond what energies push against us, what could we become?
Taking chiffon fabric and dramatic but soft lighting, I have created a series of 35mm film images printed as silver gelatin darkroom prints to represent that very motion; eclosion. The statuesque imagery creates a sense of stillness―the subject in the photo has been dormant in a state of contemplation, unable to move from its isolated space; also represented by the dark background. This work also alludes to the idea that others have carved what you were but you are becoming what you believe you truly are and should be.