#sky #nofilter :: Chloë Bass
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EXCERPT:
When I say that something is not yours to use, I’m really asking what is belonging? And who decides how we fit? Holding onto objects is a privilege, until it’s a disaster. Holding on to trauma is the 6-can plastic ring caught on the turtle’s neck. The turtle lives forever, growing around it, until it can’t.
THE BOOK
#sky #nofilter was originally a photography project examining how Bass’s smartphone camera (a 2.5 year-old iPhone 5c) represented subtle shifts in the color blue when taking photos of the uninterrupted sky on cloudless days. What started as a way of marking time and a philosophical investigation of digital "seeing" quickly became something else entirely: a combined abstract image and writing project chronicling the violent upheavals structuring everyday life in the United States between March 2016 and March 2017. This publication brings together Bass’s writing, originally published on Instagram, and a series of reflections mostly written for the project's one-year anniversary in March and April 2017. This publication marks the first time Bass's full #sky #nofilter text has appeared, unaccompanied by images, in print.
THE AUTHOR
Chloë Bass is a multiform conceptual artist working in performance, situation, conversation, publication, and installation. Her work uses daily life as a site of deep research to address scales of intimacy: where patterns hold and break as group sizes expand. She began her work with a focus on the individual (The Bureau of Self-Recognition, 2011 – 2013), has recently concluded a study of pairs (The Book of Everyday Instruction, 2015 – 2017), and will continue to scale up gradually until she’s working at the scale of the metropolis. She is currently working on Obligation To Others Holds Me in My Place (2018 – 2022), an investigation of intimacy at the scale of immediate families.
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