Prolongance

Photography by Eric Laverty

Straightening the Staircase

Navigating the Rubin Museum's spiral staircase in New York City, Straightening the Staircase transforms its curvature into a linear rendering, warping spatial reality and flattening the architectural experience. It echoes themes throughout Prologance where the exploration of movement redefines the familiar and disrupts traditional spatial narratives.

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Reimagining the capture of movement, I navigate the environment with shutter open, photographing not isolated moments but an unfolding, fluid continuum. As presence and process merge, the interplay between light and shadow, static and mobile, reveals the ephemeral that always accompanies us, yet remains beyond perception.

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