The box got bitter

6 November 2018

“I took many photographs like this while working on other projects, simply because something caught my eye. These odd images ended up in a box and, over the years, the box got bigger and bigger until there were 250 shots. I decided to make them into a sequential arrangement: a work in its own right. I pasted them all over my studio and went about my work immersed in their world.

Soon I started to notice things, just as I do when I’m out walking and taking pictures. Connections appeared between images on opposite sides of the room – it didn’t matter that they had been photographed years apart.” – Henry Wessel