ALEX H NICHOLS
SPACE BETWEEN
2012-2015
Each friendship, each relationship reveals a different aspect of ourselves. In my quest to understand myself I realized I used my art process to look at who I was with each of my friends. For two years I photographed myself with each friend. I chose black and white photography because I wanted the aesthetic extremely simple and our forms became the focus. Who am I with this friend? I believed the photographs together could reveal the larger puzzle of who I was. Often art can see something that exists more invisibly.
EXAMINING
THE SPACE BETWEEN
ME AND EACH PERSON
WHO AM I IN RELATION
TO OTHER?
WHAT IS
MIRRORED?
I wrote down the word tree (木)
but it looked so pitiful all alone
so I added another tree (木)
and the trees became a forest (æž—)
When I look at the word lonely (æ·‹)
I know why the trees are crying (涙)
It’s just because when love begins
loneliness comes in
—Terayama Shuji
