Alon Kessler
alonkess@gmail.com
@alonkessler
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I stand in the darkness of the night, watching the earth, the sky. But mostly, watching the moon. The moonlight, scattered over the inanimate fills me with longing. Compelled, I perform a photographic ceremony over and over again. Prolonged exposure burns the image onto different types of photographic light-sensitive paper. Sometimes in the moonlight, sometimes in the light of dawn. The photographic paper acting as a receptor, accepting the darkness but with its striving projection towards the light. The images are created either by direct exposure to natural light or extracted in the dark room through chemical exposure. United by touch, the discrepancy between the documentation of the physical and its perception as an abstract experience, signifies, for me, the engagement with matter and the transition between poles of emotion, between the wild and the tame.