Both sides of a bomb

2014, video

At first the images are unreadable. Shapes without names. Light and shadow arranged in ways the mind searches to decode — the way it searches an inkblot for something familiar, something safe. Then you recognize it.

Two images. Mirror and shadow. What is light in one is dark in the other — and yet they are the same. The inversion changes nothing. It only reveals that perspective is not truth.

“Both Sides of a Bomb” holds that symmetry without choosing. It does not explain. It does not accuse. It only asks you to sit with the image long enough to feel what you already know: that there is no version of this story where someone wins.

The Rorschach is not a test of what you see. It is a test of what you need to see. We look at an explosion and find justification, strategy, necessity, victory. The image asks: what if none of those words were ever true?

There is no right side of a bomb. There is only the before, and the after.