Shapeshifting

Over the last year, the two artists travelled across different cities and moved in many spaces, from underground raves in London to a squat fundraiser in Athens, to the house of a friend’s late father where they grieved through dance. The more they danced, moved, felt, the more they understood dance as an act of meditation. The dance floor – in whichever state that took – was no longer an escape, but a return to the self. No matter where they were, the feeling of dance was the same. More than a performance or a reflection of image, it became clear that dancing is a way of liberating the constraints of the mind, to move with change into a fresh state of being.

The book blends their respective reflections on their experiences of dance – Molly through fragmented poetry and prose, Evan through photography. For Evan, the camera has always been a meditative tool for introspection that allows him to question his own inner reality. Dancing with his camera in hand, he surrendered his body to the moment – becoming it, rather than observing it. In this way, the camera became an extension of his subconscious. The resulting long exposure photographs become visual abstractions of dance as a feeling – moving and changing with each breath. 

to dance is to liberate the constraints of the mind, to move with change, into a fresh state of being, an endless spiral of becoming and unbecoming. when the movement is done, where do the feelings go?