Exploring the suspension of time and movement through static image, Stephanie O’Connor’s Pivot Notes offers a gently buoyant poetics of space and bodily phenomenology.
Though the mood is quiet, nothing is ever still – each image is charged with the suspense of potential movement. Currents operating at different speeds and on different planes imbued with strangeness; autumn light offers up the visual warmth of seasonal decay (and the promise of regeneration). There lies a visual play of weight and weightlessness, dizzying heights and swamped lands, disjointed bodies soaking up time in blue mass.
A tension exists between the ancient; the monumental (trees, bodies of water), and these fleeting bodies that engage with each natural setting. Time slows down in Pivot Notes, but never stops – allowing a vertiginous embodied response to each landscape or natural phenomena, verging on the sublime. A secure viewpoint is eluded, instead offering up a richly layered depth of field alive to the myriad forces at play in the natural world.