About the work

The infant’s hair is not yet thick enough to hide the scalp, and it is here, where the skin is most vulnerable, that the burr has snagged. This small act of removal, so focused, so necessary, unfolds on a surface scarred by human neglect, a path that has seen better days. It is as if the baboon understands that the asphalt, like the distant cyclist, is merely another obstacle, a temporary feature of a world that is not truly theirs. This meticulous attention to a small, irritant detail, against such a sprawling, indifferent backdrop, suggests a deep truth: that life continues its delicate, insistent work of repair and maintenance, regardless of the failing stages it finds itself upon. Perhaps this is how we, too, persist: by picking burrs from each other, even as the world around us quietly cracks and fades. A study in Weary solicitude and Passive neglect held in the same frame. In dialogue with Contemporary street photography of disquieting family moments..