A place is never simply what it appears to be. What we understand it to be is shaped by the forces that act upon it. Time, circumstance, occupation, memory, use, and the accumulation of human decisions, these forces do not operate independently. They overlap, compete, withdraw, and leave traces, continually altering the relationship between what something is and what it becomes.

Conditions considers this relationship between existence and the forces that shape it. It begins with the idea that identity is neither entirely inherent nor entirely imposed. Some things retain a sense of themselves through continual change, while others are gradually transformed by their circumstances. Between these states, there is no fixed boundary, only an ongoing negotiation between what persists and what is altered.

The work is rooted in an interest in how we perceive and assign meaning to the world around us, and in how easily those understandings become mistaken for something permanent. What appears settled may be temporary, what seems to have disappeared may continue in another form. What we recognize as a place, or as an identity, is often only one expression of a much longer process.

Rather than seeking to resolve these contradictions, Conditions remains with them. It is an ongoing consideration of the forces that shape existence, the uncertainties that accompany change, and the possibility that things may be understood differently when we look beyond what is immediately apparent.