Wormhole Photography by Gary Kallenberg

Artistic Statement Symmetry can portray the world in a reflected, backwards sense, glazed over and serene, somehow more beautiful and balanced. Nature’s mirror, like a Rorschach test, can provide justification and meaning where none really exists. As humans, we automatically read into, analyze, and dissect. But certain phenomena, those unperceivable to our eyes, yield system failure, a blank white screen. The often obtrusive differences between natural and mechanical symmetry are softened in this space- altering singularity. As an abstract series, Wormhole explores the stages of time-deceiving travel, from anticipated departure through to arrival. The images you are about to see illustrate concrete matter, but represent the unreal.

Elevate

Compress

Accelerate

Turbulence

Commute

Unwind

Atmosphere

Disembark

Biography I was born on the east coast, in a suburb of Washington, D.C. I grew up in an old neighborhood, with colonial-style houses, liberal values, and an underground drug problem, which I was too young to be affected by. As a kid, I tried almost every non- competitive sport imaginable. I played for myself, because I enjoyed being able to win or lose without consequence. My family moved across the country when I was eleven, tearing my siblings and me from the lifestyle to which we had become accustomed: basements, raked piles of leaves, and power failures. We despised our new environment. During regular dinner conversation, we would squawk at the exercising mothers in their jumpsuits, mock our wealthy neighbor’s interaction with his ethnic gardener, and ridicule the concept of tract homes. However, through an undocumented process, the stark differences between us and them receded over time; my assimilation became apparent when I found myself using the word “sick” in everyday conversation.