Rhythms of the Subconscious: A Closer Look At Photon's Latest exhibition

There are moments in life that serve the purpose of entirely transitioning the way we exist on this planet. They break us, rebuild us. They take from us things we didn’t know we had, and introduce us to the things we didn’t know we needed. These moments in reality are not ours, but they belong to the greater understanding of what exactly the randomness of our time here is all about. It is about change. It is about transition. It is about being part of a revolving door that will never stop spinning and learning to enjoy the ride.
Photon may be one of the last true visual poets to demonstrate the phenomenon. He spends his days spinning the fabrics & threads of what we know about this strange world we inhabit turning it into beautiful art that help connect us on the most fundamental levels of being human; change.

In his new series “Rhythms of the Subconscious,” Photon’s ability to understand the nuance and nature of life defining moments is on full display. Each one of these one-of-one works is able to capture the feeling of transition. He accomplishes this through the work’s atmosphere, which mixes digital aesthetics and natural landscapes in a way that offers a unique and distinct outlook for each individual that spends time with the artwork.

Each of the subjects in this body of work feature an entirely different landscape, the defining feature being exclusively the bland and expressionless subjects that inhabit the worlds that Photon is able to build. This lends itself to Photon’s work’s ability to connect with audiences around the world regardless of the individual biases that each viewer brings to the table. In a world that is catered to sharing of our own each individual experience, having artwork that speaks to the universal understanding of the life defining moments is something that stands out and is able to touch the hearts of everyone that spends time with it.

All three of the artworks in this exhibition include a mix of both digital and natural aesthetics. The landscapes are in the shapes of, or include aspects from, the natural world, but are directly juxtaposed by the intruding glitch and digital painting elements that define photo’s individual style and reflect the ethereal nature of his subject matter. In one of the pieces “The Old Me Is Dead,” we can see the defining elements of a sand dune being consumed by the digital aspects of the work that make the entire scene feel like the fading memory of a forgotten and decaying hard drive. These artistic choices not only define Photon’s artistic style but offer a visual story telling language for him to communicate change and the passage of time. In every one of these pieces the landscape is being overtaken by this digital erosion in a way that appears to represent that these moments exist in the midst of a great change or transition for the subjects that occupy them.

Few know Photon personally, even fewer know his identity, but something we all know is that he exists in a world of colors, shapes, and lines that are able to help people understand that they will never entirely understand themselves. This exhibition and his entire body of work contain pieces of all of us. The pieces that are strictly human. The things and experiences that we don’t always talk about but never forget. There is something amongst all of us in these works.