laisse moi

TJO on the inspiration for his work

"I wish to explore a surrealist approach of post-photography inspired by Deborah Turbeville and Frank Ockenfels; where figurative forms, dreamlike spaces and a physical and digital interdisciplinarity open a door to the feeling of obsessions. These digital, analog or performative components serve as a support to visualize internal psychological processes and the dreamscapes that emerge from them. I aim to offer immersive experiences where '…we see a photographic material, not just an image.'" - TJO

A poem to accompany "laisse moi"

i arrived at a staircase and at the end of it an acre smell and darkness awaited my arrival

hard to say If it was to scare away the weak ones or a warning of what awaits

A poem to accompany "birds in the trap"

i feel trapped in my mind. like a bird that never learned to fly

A poem to accompany "the tree that grew on rocks"

From the rocks grew a tree, different from those you've seen before; unstoppable, unbothered by the panic surrounding him. As the world burned around him; he stayed strong, his roots deep in the rocks.

A poem to accompany "never look in your mind's attic"

I always told the world, that I was to bring light to the fractured; but there are places even I must not look.

A poem to accompany "farther reaches"

The knives you threw at me made an angel.

A poem to accompany "aniridia"

Your look still haunts me, and I'll never be able to tell you.

A poem to accompany "dancing with death"

I'm dancing with death; a drink beyond my limit. When will the Prozac in my veins leave me empty; in the chaos of this finite dance.