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A Sub-Series of Ecotone<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Only You Are Close,\nWhen Everything Is Far Away<\/h1>\n

Bodies at the edge of water, during the year the world could not be touched.<\/p>\n\n<\/header>

This series emerged during the pandemic, when distance became the condition of every body in the world. Skin, which is the body's first and most vulnerable threshold, could no longer be reached. Travel collapsed. Studios closed. The ways nude art photography had been practiced for decades \u2014 in groups, in shared spaces, with the intimacy of near proximity \u2014 all stopped at once.Only You Are Close, When Everything Is Far Away<\/em> was made in that suspended time. It is the pandemic chapter of Ecotone<\/em><\/a>, the long-form series on the body and the natural environment. What changes here is the emotional register. Where Ecotone<\/em> places the body among horses, trees, blossoms, and water as an ecosystem in which the human is one element, this sub-series places the body alone \u2014 sitting, crouched, curled, turned away \u2014 on a narrow strip of dark sand where the land meets the water and nothing else enters the frame.\n\nThe landscape here is minimal to the point of abstraction: wet shore, small waves, a thin horizon. No trees, no architecture, no visible weather, no other people. The body has the whole frame to itself but is small within it \u2014 pushed toward the corner, sometimes barely legible against the darker sand. What the images record is not the body in nature but the body's distance from nature<\/em>. The wave is close; the water is close; the earth is close. Everything else is far away.\n\nThe title is taken from the emotional structure of that period. During the pandemic, the people who were still physically close became almost unbearably close; everything outside the domestic perimeter was withdrawn into screens. The closeness in the title is not a comfort. It is a fact about proximity under constraint: when the world recedes, whatever remains at arm's reach becomes the whole of experience.\n\nThe figures are photographed from the back, from a distance, and at moments of stillness rather than gesture. The refusal of the face is deliberate. These are not portraits of a specific subject; they are studies of the condition of being alone with a body, beside water, at a moment when this was one of the few forms of encounter still available. The black and white tonal range holds the images in a register that is more austere than the colour registers of Ecotone<\/em>'s earlier work.\n\nThe sub-series developed across a single extended period and remains its own coherent cycle within Ecotone<\/em>. It has not been reopened since.\n\n<\/section>\n
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Works from the Series<\/h2>\n

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Within the Wider Series<\/h2>\nOnly You Are Close, When Everything Is Far Away<\/em> is presented as part of Ecotone<\/em><\/a>, which investigates the body as a transitional zone between human and natural worlds. Ecotone<\/em> draws on Donna Haraway's concept of natureculture<\/em> and related contemporary ecological thought. This sub-series is its pandemic-period chapter and remains available as part of the Ecotone<\/em> body of work.\n\n<\/section>\n
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