Like There's No Tomorrow

9 C-prints
18"x24" each
2008

This series was curated by Murat Germen for Kasa Galeri of Istanbul, where I was asked to produce photographic work with the theme "Like There's No Tomorrow". Inspired by Jiddu Krishnamurti's teachings, my interpretation of the phrase was one that looked into psychic images of fear and/or pleasure in the absence of futurity.

"Thought is both responsible for fear as well as pleasure.
This is not a verbal conclusion, this is not a formula for avoiding fear.
That is, where there is fear, there is pain and pleasure.
Pleasure goes with pain, the two are indivisible, and thought is responsible for both.
If there was no tomorrow or the next moment to think about, neither fear nor pleasure, they'd neither exist."

Jiddu Krishnamurti