Case
Project Case explores the quiet drama of exposure in a world where privacy is increasingly negotiable. Focusing on musical instruments hidden within their protective cases, the project captures X-ray scans that reveal what is normally concealed—objects of precision, craft, and personal meaning.
These instruments, secured in padded interiors and carried through public spaces, are not just tools of performance but intimate extensions of their owners. When scanned, their elegant internal structures are exposed: strings, valves, reeds, and hardware appear as luminous, skeletal forms suspended in space. What was once protected becomes revealed, rendered strange and mesmerizing by the cold gaze of security technology.
Case invites reflection on what it means to surrender the hidden. In exposing the concealed beauty of these instruments, the project questions the broader implications of forced transparency—suggesting that even the most personal and protected objects are now subject to inspection, and that in this exposure, a haunting, unexpected beauty can emerge.
Incited 2017
Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY
