A Repeated Baptism by Light (Xerox), 2022

(left) Laser print, 197x285mm.

(right) Two channel video
Black and white
Sound
9 min. 28 sec.

In Indian metempsychosis philosophy, the soul finds itself awash in the sea of Samsara. Flowing around a current of perpetual birth and death, it strives to find release from these bindings.

The work presented, titled A Repeated Baptism by Light (Xerox), combines print photography and video performance, whereby an archival photograph of my deceased mother is repeatedly scanned and printed through a laser printer until the original image is (almost) completely obscured. 

With the repetition of its soft machinic rumbles, the printer and I work in tandem on the transformational initiation of the image. On its immersion, purification, obscuration, and finally, its release.