Abstract

The Annihilation of Time and Space is an interdisciplinary project exploring memory, queer identity, vulnerability, and the power of the gaze through photography, film, light, and installation. Rooted in a formative childhood experience of pleasure, exposure, and shame, the work revisits the suburban backyard as a site of intimate reckoning. Through video projections, light boxes, composite photographs, and a reappropriated family photo album, the project interrogates the instability of memory, the relational dynamics of looking, and the construction of masculinity and the objectified self. Viewers oscillate between roles of observer and observed, experiencing intimacy, vulnerability, and the fragility of identity. The project transforms early experiences of shame into moments of recognition, care, and possibility, collapsing temporal and spatial distance between past and present selves. Ultimately, it envisions looking—not as surveillance, but as an act of attention, tenderness, and love.