Gina Cholick’s work explores the liminal spaces where time, memory and recognition slow down and allow for contemplative communication. As a photographer, she seeks to communicate and understand not what is in front of her, but the unseen. Night Wandering is an emotional narrative about the artist’s struggle with insomnia. Self-portraits and remote landscapes tell the story of the night as a metaphor for the unsettled mind.
It's in the still of night when I am most awake, in those stretches of silence when the world is at rest and I feel untethered from the pull of slumber. The weight of my exhausted limbs chafe against my unyielding mind, pulling me down into a spiral of night visions that flash across the screen of time passing and memory, leaving me paralyzed with eyes wide open. Even with the closeness of the body next to me, the warm and deep slow breaths of contented slumber, I am alone in my night crawling. Wrapped within this state of insomnia, I experience the battlefields of remote and isolated landscapes, negative spaces that feel at once perilous and beautiful. I mark my nighttime expeditions with lightly tread footsteps that lead me toward the glow of darkness. I move forward without respite, untamed and unknowing in my direction.
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