Photo © Jesse Koechling
Creative - NOMINEE: Jesse Koechling
noncorpa
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As I return to a mountaintop there’s an electric stillness about me and within me. The valley below records the thickness of the air and the moments of dimming light and expanding space. Distances of times past and the physical space ahead become relative. I pick up a larvae woven twig… I reach and grasp a distant peak; I feel those past pilgrims who walked alongside me. The path of life draws me to a divine reflection upon such landscapes.
The works from noncorpa are moments woven through one another and filled with a spiritual glow. An ongoing project currently composed of four verses, they are a disembodied wandering within a sea of connections; at first searching for origins, then journeying out into the landscape, later a remapping that leads to a common story, and finally a more personal verse portraying intimate human bonds. The process of recording, printing, tearing, marking, and wearing-down is my walk into this unknown and the embrace of what is to be found there. These details instill a sense of the history in cherished objects and portray the delicate nature of creating a relic. A nothing sort of souvenir, but something that hopes to unite across disparate entities to remind us that we all breathe together as one.
About author:
Some of Jesse’s earliest memories are of images magically forming under the red glow of his dad’s darkroom. He is a photographically based artist playing with themes of solitude, perception, memory, time, and our place within nature. Jesse grew up in the Chicago suburbs and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
The works from noncorpa are moments woven through one another and filled with a spiritual glow. An ongoing project currently composed of four verses, they are a disembodied wandering within a sea of connections; at first searching for origins, then journeying out into the landscape, later a remapping that leads to a common story, and finally a more personal verse portraying intimate human bonds. The process of recording, printing, tearing, marking, and wearing-down is my walk into this unknown and the embrace of what is to be found there. These details instill a sense of the history in cherished objects and portray the delicate nature of creating a relic. A nothing sort of souvenir, but something that hopes to unite across disparate entities to remind us that we all breathe together as one.
About author:
Some of Jesse’s earliest memories are of images magically forming under the red glow of his dad’s darkroom. He is a photographically based artist playing with themes of solitude, perception, memory, time, and our place within nature. Jesse grew up in the Chicago suburbs and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.