Jordan Francesca Moyd, Duke University
Photograph
From the artist:
Photography is my voice when words fall short—my portal, inviting strangers into the ‘intimate gray goop’ of déjà vu that binds my reality to my dream state. My process is slow, deliberate, and unforced, flowing in waves of growth and patience. Often, I don’t understand why the photos resonate with me now more than when I first took them. It’s not nostalgia. It’s the experience of a reality that exists only in a fever dream—so tangible it appeals to the senses, yet something feels fundamentally off. Isn’t that the best kind of art? Paralleling life, where everything makes sense except for one elusive detail. That one thing unacknowledged in the background.
My art is not one-size-fits-all. Stretch it out, tug it to the left, shake it out. I want each person who interacts with it to connect in their own way. You might resonate with it or refute its nature. Either way, an invitation has been extended. My art lies just next to the underbelly of transparency. What is context, beyond what I can yield it to be? I bend the past, present, and future—truths that exist only in my vision. No one can contest it—I hold the lens, and through it, I hold the truth.