Wormhole

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Wormhole

• Photography by Gary Kallenberg

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Biography

• I was born on the east coast, in a suburb of
  Washington, D.C. I grew up in an old
  neighborhood, with colonial-style houses, liberal
  values, and an underground adolescent drug
  problem, which I was too young to be affected by.
  As a kid, I played almost every non-competitive
  sport imaginable. This probably contributed to my
  current indifferent nature.
• My family moved across the country when I was
  eleven, tearing my siblings and me from the
  lifestyle to which we had become accustomed. We
  despised our new environment. During regular
  dinner conversation, we would squawk at the
  exercising mothers in their jumpsuits, mock our
  wealthy neighbors interaction with his ethnic
  gardener, and ridicule the concept of track
  homes. We contemplated why the Home Owners
  Association wouldnt let us build a tree house in
  our backyard. They claimed it would obstruct our
  neighbors view of the canyon.
• However, I slowly made friends in school and
  around my picturesque neighborhood. I saw movies,
  went bowling, played golf, and generally did
  things that you can do in nearly every inhabited
  region of American. Like an unwanted alien, my
  stark differences receded over time and once I
  adapted, the general course of life resumed,
  accelerating to the present.
• As a high school student at Canyon Crest
  Academy, I dont have a terrifically profound
  arts background or a Bachelors in design, but I
  do possess memories from global travels. With my
  parents Ive ventured to Spain, the Baltics,
  China, the Caribbean, England, and a great
  number of our own countrys national parks. For
  this, I am thankful.

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Artistic Statement

• Symmetry is a peculiar thing. It can portray the
  world in a reflected, backwards sense, glazed
  over and serene, somehow more beautiful and
  balanced. Natures mirror, like a Rorschach test,
  can provide justification for every aspect of
  life, even when none really exists. As humans, we
  automatically read into, analyze, and dissect,
  but certain phenomena, those unperceivable to our
  eyes, yield system failure, a blank white screen.
  The often obtrusive differences between natural
  and mechanical symmetry are softened in the
  space-altering singularity of a wormhole. This
  series explores the stages of time-deceiving
  travel, from anticipated departure through to
  arrival.

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Elevate
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Compress
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Accelerate
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Commute
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Disembark