Swallow is a documentation project that plays with memory and location. The project takes form as a newsletter that arrives in your inbox two to three times a month.
Many of my projects are curious about memory, perception, and the relationship we have to our environments, and to ourselves. Swallow, though evolving, is a project that seeks to document, and map those curiosities.
By orienting itself through/around location, each chapter of Swallow observes the temporality of things: the beauty there, the pain and passage—the movement.
A paragraph from The city and her aloneness perhaps best describes Swallow’s origins:
“The city and her aloneness doesn’t feel solvable. Neither does the forest I came from. But in me I find them both taking up residence. I will attempt to document them here. I had forgotten that this was my original intention, for the world to swallow me up and tell me everything. To look outside windows, and have a sense of self, somewhere in the belly of things. I believe this is precisely how this project exists, episodic in nature, fertile and fragile, but in the belly of things—swallowed—as something eaten and yet it eats.” The self breaks many times, and has to put itself back together in various order and tempo. It’s my hope that Swallow finds tenderness in those corners.
