Following a month long vacation in Bedstuy, New York in 2025, frankssson arrived home to find a copy of A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr left behind by the couple he’d swapped flats with for the month. On reading Carr’s subtle and deftly elegiac prose, he found himself taken with the synchronicity of novel’s narrative and his own experience of a month in New York City.
The latent thrust behind this essay is the artist’s attempt to organise and sift out a meaning behind the murmuration of thoughts and feelings conducting his everyday experience. Using Carr’s book as a jumper off point, frankssson gently explores Carr’s themes of nostalgia, longing, and desire, set against our modern compulsion to photograph everything we behold in a seemingly endless stream of autopilot actions. Compelled by Susan Sontag’s, On Photography, and inspired by Merleau-Ponty’s écart, frankssson’s photography aims to question gently, whilst never answering fully.
Publisher: Frankssson
