Attempts
2024
Attempts documents two men performing impressive but ultimately pointless tasks with deliberate mediocrity. Rather than demonstrating traditional masculine ideals of strength or achievement, the subjects inhabit a space where success and failure hold equal weight, and playfulness supersedes competition.
The photographs, extracted as stills from video recordings, preserve the motion and color quality of their source material. Presented in vertical strips, the format reflects this translation from moving image to static frame.