ASH LOPER


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Propensity explores the transition into adulthood, focused on balancing responsibilities against play. The set-up of each image called for a moment of suspended responsibility. By submitting to impulse, rather than careful planning and staging, I experienced play in the process. However, what I uncovered after compiling these images together was still something void of vibrant youthfulness. The home I was renting from looked burdensome rather than a place to let loose, the alone-ness presents as melancholy instead of untethered independence.

What I ended up with is a series of images filled with liminal spaces, and a figure stuck between two stages of their life.