Visual Studies / 014

Body & Gesture

Melbourne and New York City

2022–2024

7 images

Earworm

Exploring intimacy through ear-touching and whispering.

Washington Square Park, New York City.

Earworm follows hands, mouths and faces gathering around the ear. A whisper, a touch or a small adjustment creates an intimate circuit in the middle of public space.

Upper West Side, New York City.

The ear is both receptive and exposed. It receives language without returning a gaze, allowing one person to enter another’s attention while the surrounding street remains visible. The photographs hold care, secrecy, persuasion and intrusion within gestures that can look nearly identical.

World Trade Center, New York City.

Across repeated encounters, the series asks how private communication becomes public theater. What is said remains unavailable. What the camera records is the relation itself: proximity, permission and the brief redistribution of attention between bodies.

Midtown, New York City.
Union Square, New York City.
Herald Square, New York City. 2022.
Kyoto, Japan.