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Involuntary Photographs (2020–2025)Between 2020 and 2025, a quiet body of images accumulated on my mobile device—unintended exposures triggered by stray gestures, accidental taps, or perhaps the device’s own restless dreaming. These photographs weren’t composed or deliberately captured;
they simply happened. Stripped of subject matter and traditional framing, they appear as soft abstractions of light, texture, and motion—visual echoes of the environments I passed through, without ever intending to document them.Accidental in origin, these images recall Color Field paintings: swaths of hue, gradients of light, and incidental arrangements that suggest emotion without narrative. They exist in the space between the mechanical and the unconscious—photography without a photographer, vision without intent. Involuntary Photographs engages questions of agency and authorship in an era of automated seeing. Who—or what—creates, when images arise without conscious will? Here, the camera becomes a co-creator, or perhaps the sole agent—recording not what I see, but what passes through it in moments of non-doing.
In the spirit of wu wei—the Taoist principle of effortless action—this work reflects on authorship, agency, and the aesthetics of chance. These photographs are not taken; they emerge. Visual by-products of daily life, they are gestures gone unnoticed.
In letting go of control, the role of the artist shifts—from creator to witness, and perhaps even to absence.
