Stray World

I am standing outside the door of some other. I am writing a letter. I am writing many. I am looking to pass through. I find a device on the ground called a transducer and activate it. It’s a signaling device that converts energy from one form to another. Common examples are microphones, loudspeakers, thermometers, various types of sensors and antenna. The humble camera is my apparatus for transduction, an instrument often underestimated for its ability to act as a medium through which any and all worlds can travel. Entire subjectivities can undergo reprocessing through this spirit act. The subjects found in this project are largely invisible but their words and marks are rendered through sight and sound. If underneath every picture there is always another picture then what I am talking about here is excavation. It’s an excavation project of the mind, of subjects who left a place by way of voluntary and involuntary actions based on the movement of race, religion, sexual and gender orientation and all other forms of cognitive, behavioral and trans-physical activities that constitute difference. * STRAY WORLD was made over the course of two American election cycles, between the years of 2016 and 2022. While this site and its companion publication are presented under one title, the work has been exhibited over time and in different places, with each part bearing its own title along the way. * How can a camera be so sure that its subjects are willing to be seen if not heard, to be in the weather if not destroyed by it, to be in the war if not moving away from it, to be wet words in a hot field? —— This item is archived and accessible in Library Stack, but we suggest viewing in browser for full media experience.