Beyond Measure: On Scale, Memory, and Presence

Beyond Measure

Beyond Measure is more than a title.It’s a way of remembering — a meditation on how we move through scale, time, perception, and the quiet architectures of our lives.

This body of work isn’t built from imagery alone. It’s shaped from feeling — from the sense of vastness and smallness that defines what it means to be human. From the spaces we inhabit, and the ones that inhabit us.

We measure our lives in milestones, distances, years. But feeling refuses the ruler. Wonder doesn’t have a unit. Neither does loss. Somewhere between the monumental and the fading, there’s a truth that can only be felt — not calculated, not captured, just held.

Monumental

This chapter explores the overwhelming scale of childhood — that strange era when the world looms impossibly large. Not to inspire us, but to remind us of our limits.

In these imagined spaces, small figures of children stand before vast architectures that feel both magnificent and indifferent. These aren’t literal buildings — they are feelings cast in form. Wonder and pressure intertwined. Awe and expectation sharing the same air.

Childhood, in this series, is not nostalgia. It’s orientation — the moment we first learn what it means to be small.

Fading Measure

Where Monumental captures the largeness of being young, Fading Measure turns toward the other end of the arc. Here, the elderly move through the same vast architectures, but something has shifted. The spaces remain immense, but their gaze no longer falls upon those within them.

These works are about presence that lingers quietly, about existing without being seen. They ask what it means to become small again — not from wonder, but from absence. To carry endurance like a whisper. To belong to a world that no longer bends to meet your eye.

The Arc of Being

Together, Monumental and Fading Measure hold the shape of Beyond Measure itself — a meditation on visibility, time, and emotional scale. The same world that once towered above us eventually forgets we’re there. And yet, somewhere between those extremes, we live our ordinary, miraculous in-betweenness.

These pieces are not about despair. They are about noticing. About recognizing that our scale — physical, emotional, existential — is always shifting. That to be human is to oscillate between significance and insignificance, between being the measure and being measured by everything around us.

Beyond Measure is, at its core, an act of remembering:that the small is sacred,

that the vast is temporary, and that both are parts of the same, immeasurable story.

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Next, I’ll share Held by Light—a collection where each image carries its own poem. If The Weather Inside was about what we hold in the dark, Held by Light is its quiet counterweight—an exploration of what happens when we finally let the light touch what we’ve been keeping.