Do What Thou Wilt

'Do What Thou Wilt' is the title of this show because that's what we Humans do: whatever we will. Humanity evolved its cognition, self-awareness, language, innovation, etc. because it allowed us to survive the harshness of the relentless onslaught of nature and the universe. It allowed us to have a minute amount of control of our surroundings so we could exist for yet another generation. After awhile, after our basic needs were met, our will carried us in many different, more contemplative directions. Yet the more we learned and thought we achieved, the more we realized the full breadth of nature, the sheer precipitous sovereignty of the universe, and the infinitesimal part we play in it. Like ants trying to hold up their hill colony in the inescapable and seemingly obstinate wind and rain. In the end, everything washes into the sea; no matter if that sea is the deep blue waters of the ocean or the dust floating in blackness of interstellar space. Although during that flow, we swim in that river of time, doing what we will. As a consequence, at times we think that we are odds with nature and the universe, that we must rampage against it, control it and tame it, or be another victim of its ceaseless entropy. Of course, and quite paradoxically, nature and the universe is doing the same thing we are: bestowing its will. Nevertheless, the fundamental difference is that we are aware of our will, we have volition.

These photographs attempt to explore these themes of humanity and nature exerting their wills upon and abreast of each other and the beautiful patterns of potentiality that can occur as this happens.