“Asymptotic expansion towards blessed unrest” (2015–present): This gallery is a photographic meditation on the poem “Better Impermanence Than Finality” by Clare Brant, published in Breathing Space (Shoestring Press, 2020). Each image negotiates the space between absence and presence—not as mere aesthetic distance, but as the structuring gap of desire itself. Nostalgia and longing here are not deficits but generative forces: they orient the subject around a lost object that was never possessed, weaving transient joy around the void of an originary trauma. What is repressed does not stay buried—it insists, resurfaces, re-marks. These photographs do not seek resolution, but dwell in the rhythm of return: the symptom’s shimmer, the gaze’s disturbance, the Real’s trace beneath the visible. Cameras used: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z5–>iPhone 11 Pro.
