Someone Else

Artist: Lev Gorn

As a photographer, even before I delved into the world of Einstein, I had already started experimenting with multiple exposures. I instinctively wanted to strip away points of reference by deconstructing the images I created by collapsing time and space, and unknowingly colliding my conscious and the unconscious mind. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity postulated that all motion is relative and time and space no longer uniform and absolute. His dimension of Curved Spacetime introduced me to the ideas of time dilation, relativity of simultaneity and length contraction, and transformed my work even further. Each seemingly separate moment frozen in my camera became an intersection of time and space, past and future, birth and death - the irrevocable instant where all universal constructs simultaneously converged. I was no longer trying to capture “an image.” In fact, I was bending uniform reality with color, form and context so that the viewer’s perception of time and space would dilate as he got emotionally closer to each image. In this series, I see a universe where God and Man trade roles eternally and without knowing who they are; where we exist in no absolute space and time; and as we gaze into the far distance we simultaneously gaze into our eternal souls.

 

 

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