Even the Poles Move is an ongoing body of work that explores the emotional polarity of change through the metaphor of duality and the physics of magnetic-induced movement. The title references how something as seemingly stable as Earth’s magnetic North and South poles have radically changed positions over time.

Inspired by Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s series of photographs created from paintings he made to explore photographic abstraction, my compositions are created through the manipulation of paint, photographic toners, and physical objects within a magnetic environment. The process creates a “liquid-life” that is highly unstable. As the liquids move, colors, shapes and textures transform.

There is a duality in their creation: undertaken with intention, but equally affected by serendipity; creating movement and then stopping that movement with a still photo. The visual language of dualities speaks to the duality of possible responses to change.

Making and photographing the liquid compositions are an exploration of magnetism, a meditation on impermanence through acts of building and destroying, an insight into change through photography’s ability to preserve and release time, and a reminder that we flow in a continuous loop of creating and letting go.