The Invention of Us is an exploration of being human in a strange and billowing world. The presentation of the photographic narrative reflects the quality of experience through phenomenological time.

Being human is a continuous dance between self and other:

What right do I have to choose myself when it wounds you? How much can I ask for before it becomes too much? How much can I give before I feel emptied of myself? How far can I bend to keep you close without breaking who I am? How closely can I hold onto myself without losing you in the process?

This fragile tension is a convection current from the core of our humanity.

𓅰 𓅬 𓅭 𓅮 𓅯

A salient influence on The Invention of Us lies in the pleasure of experiencing Dylan Henner’s ambient soundscapes You Will Always Be and The Invention of the Human. Multiple titles came from songs on those albums: Everyone I’ve Ever Loved Lives Here All Around Me, The World Moves Quicker Than I Had Ever Realized, Two Trains Came Through the Station at Once. Their sonic narcotic, as if reliving each expansion and contraction before I would come to know mortality, became a wave guide for neuroplasticity.