slowly, slowly by Logan Bellew

I used to think I made art, but I realize now that I make documents. When I first went to Cyprus in 2011 I was working as a photographer documenting the artifacts of an archaeological excavation, and I can’t seem to shake the mindset. The formal qualities needed for each object and the necessity of creating a record to be studied later resonated with my need to make photographs of the things around me, if not to show to other people than at least to remind myself that this is where I was, this is what I saw, and this is what I felt. These pictures are what happens when life “happens” to you, when you can’t see what’s ahead of you but you need to keep going. In that sense these photographs are a record of evolution. Light but dark, threatening but tender, distant and sometimes too close these pictures slowly unfold the narrative of a second life in a place I can never stay but always need to get back to, on and on and on, if only to see the place and people I love for a little while longer. These pictures are my vessel for that joy and sorrow. Odysseus, meet Sisyphus.

Logan Bellew lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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