Centa Schumacher

Voids, etc. explores cosmology and personal transformation through the continuous cycle of birth-death-rebirth. If all begins in the void, what first emerges is chaos. Chaos, active and moving, eventually settles into order. But order, while appearing stable, is never permanent and eventually must plunge into the void, to be transformed into chaos once more. This new chaos eventually returns to a new order, and the cycle repeats continuously, unending.

The work in Voids, etc. was created with this lens as a way to change visual reality into something beyond the real. In order to look past what we're capable of seeing from our own physicality, we must find a way to see into the numinous potential that lies beyond. If photography is the act of capturing light and time, then this lens acts as a tool to view both of these realities on another wavelength, much like the deep space telescopes capture Gamma and X-rays to bring us otherwise unseen images of the universe.