“Un-Meshing the World”
on Non-Fiction Journal, published by Open City Documentary Fest
“Somewhere between reclamation and repair, photogrammetry offered a conflicted and contradictory vision forwards through a shared relationship between my father, myself, and his memories of our ancestral house and toward a sense of home and belonging despite (or perhaps in the face of) neo-colonial theft, destruction, and exhaustion. This vision was inherently incomplete and did not seek to find totality, nor its telos structured by a definitive whole. By working with—not against—photogrammetry’s limits, glitches, and blemishes (their artifacts as we say) we are able to touch on an approximation of a dark infinite—a reversal of this same tool’s use value as an instrument for hyper-accuracy—floating in a sublime nothingness only to reflect our faces back at us from the glare of the LCD retina screen. The lacunae of the image is perhaps our best chance to escape our already hyper-meshed world.”