#complication

We live in an era of “instant.” Instant downloads, instant coffee, and instant gratification. We’ve become so accustomed to the quick fix that waiting has started to feel like failure. When God gives us a promise but doesn’t provide a timeline, our human nature tends to get twitchy. We start looking for the “Plan B”—a way to help God along. But as we see in the story of Abraham, Sarah, and the…

I have a scar going from my belly button all the way down to *you-know-where*. First 2 weeks where fine, 1 week at the hospital and 1 week at home.

Had my first post-checkup. They told me my scar "looked good". But they also had some bad news.. 😢

The removed 27 lymph nodes, 1 of them was infected with my cancer.. So in about 4 to 5 weeks i had to start chemo and radiation. 5 times chemotherapy and 25 times radiation therapy..

After that week i felt something.. don't really know how to describe it.. it felt like a couple of pangs.. like my inner sutures where letting go.

And sure, why not. The first complication. I had a open belly wound, not in 1 place, but i had 4 (!!) open holes in my lower belly.

Went to the hospital about 3 times. All around christmas, one of them even poked around with a surgical cotton swab. The wound even became bigger because of that. So that sucked..

The starting point of my project was the analysis of our everyday environment, focusing primarily on the objects that surround us and our relationship to them. A significant portion of our lives is spent interacting with items that frequently come into the center of our attention — yet most of the time we hardly acknowledge their presence. These objects nonetheless carry the traces of social, cultural, economic, and natural processes; they may be the sources or aims of our actions, and can even become active participants in events.

I was particularly interested in their role within the human world: how we perceive them, and how closely we are connected to them. How do seemingly contradictory elements — the organic and the artificial — exist side by side? And how can this be captured through photography?

The boundaries between the organic and inorganic, the planar and spatial, the digital and analog dimensions appearing in the images reflect these oppositions. They symbolize the differences between the constructed world and organic life, yet through their interweaving a certain harmony is created.

Here, the object appears stripped down, reinterpreted on a conceptual level — at times as a symbol of body parts or alternative prosthetics.

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Complication

Projektem kiindulópontja a mindennapi környezetünk vizsgálata volt, amely során elsősorban a minket körülvevő tárgyak és a hozzájuk fűződő viszonyunk foglalkoztatott. Életünk jelentős részét olyan interakciók töltik ki, amelyek e tárgyakra irányulnak — mégis, legtöbbször észre sem vesszük őket. Mindezek a dolgok magukon hordozzák a társadalmi, kulturális, gazdasági és természeti folyamatok lenyomatait; lehetnek cselekvéseink forrásai vagy céljai, sőt egyes helyzeteknek akár aktív szereplői is.

Érdekelt, hogy milyen szerepet töltenek be az emberi világban, hogyan láttatjuk őket, és mennyire szoros kapcsolat köt minket hozzájuk. Hogyan férhet meg egymás mellett az első látásra ellentétes organikus és mesterséges elem? És mindezt miként lehet megragadni a fotográfia eszközeivel?

A képeken megjelenő organikus–szervetlen, síkbeli–térbeli, illetve digitális–analóg dimenziók között húzódó határok az ellentétekre reflektálnak. A konstruált világ és az organikus élet közötti különbségeket szimbolizálják, ugyanakkor összefonódásuk révén harmónia jön létre.

Jennifer Choate’s pregnancy was uncomplicated — until it wasn’t. Two and a half weeks before her March 6, 2025 due date, the 27-year-old went to the emergency room at the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center after experiencing headaches and high blood pressure. Doctors thought Choate might be suffering from preeclampsia and induced labor. Her fiancée rushed to her side.…