Loon
by Jacob Church
portfolio shortlisted call 'Urbanautica Institute Awards 2024', 2024
Category: People and Communities
Loon is an ode to all the little towns where surfaces are rougher, things are older, and people work to survive. Although these images are products of an intuitive practice based upon immediate response, an internal proclivity for yards, fences, chipped paint, stray cats and dogs unconsciously shape the project. Towns I visit on the east coast have a similar ethos to the spaces that raised me in Ohio. I see this condition on the surfaces of buildings, painted on cars, and in the faces of strangers on the street. This work is about a kind of harmony where mundane places, people, and things radiate a similar melancholic bliss. If there is a through line or a certain kind of beauty, it's one of love tethered to discontent, tenderness in rough places, and unconscious longing. I hope to create with these images a sort of constellation of self. One that walks through many different moments and spaces as a means to question notions of memory, familiarity and home.
also from Urbanautica Institute Awards 2024