Photo essay, 2020

As a series of non-autoportraits, Rites, ad libitum is constructed on the lack of a decided and rigid self. Sequences of transformative actions are performed at will as explorations into shifts and phases of the temporal self. Within these explorations, the self-perceived identity is defined as the fluidity between one state and the other through informal and self-induced rites. Here, within these acts, the body stands for the temporal self as its sign and as its space. They echo and bear the acts realized onto the other.

A threshold is passed and captured in motion during each transformative action. Once this threshold is passed, we arrive, again, at a stable state within which the self loses grip of the volatile moment and fails to define itself once more. Therefore, the interstices between two states of existence define the true self which is ever-changing and, perhaps, nothing but change itself.