“The Moth” / 2015 

film photography, 

10 works, 60*60 cm 

 One summer, in the attic of my grandmother’s old house, I found a volume of poems by Joseph Brodsky. After reading a few, I came across “Fly away from here, white moth.” I felt an immediate, profound connection to its theme. I took my medium format film camera, asked my daughter to model, and shot a visual poem contemplating human freedom and life. In this project, I explore the desire to preserve freedom and the true nature of human existence, resisting the constraints and attachments that so often arise in life. The frames we sometimes find ourselves confined by are often imposed by others, as well as by our own self-imposed limitations. My subjects act as moths, striving to unite their physical and spiritual states. The technique of multiple exposure helped erase the boundary between the physical and spiritual worlds. The film grain emphasized dust and scratches as artifacts of the physical realm, while long exposures conveyed the ephemeral nature of the moment.