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KAYAKER is a book made from multiple forms—photography, sculpture, film, lecture transcript, and installation documentation—to explore how materials and sequences shape meaning. It’s not a traditional monograph. It’s built more like an artist book: open-ended, process-driven, and not overly polished.
The work includes film, digital, and iPhone photographs; UV prints on rice paper; documentation of rope-based sculptures and installations; and stills from Ambito, a silent 16mm film I made in 2022, intended only for projection. There’s also a rewritten transcript of a 1995 lecture by Peter Warshall, a naturalist and former Whole Earth Catalog editor, focused on the origins and uses of water. His talk became another kind of material—edited and rearranged to sit within the book as part of the larger conversation.
At the center of the project is Kirra, a female kayaker whose navigation of waterways acts as a throughline for exploring how we relate to, depend on, neglect, and move with water. The work considers water both as subject and structure, asking how natural and human-made systems shape experience.
KAYAKER also tests how far a book can stretch formally. It resists clean categories and doesn’t aim to deliver a single message. Instead, it opens space for fragments, patterns, and connections—a platform for work that doesn’t fully land in one place.
Where exhibitions are temporary, books holds time differently. It lets the work circulate, shift, and be revisited.