Wormhole Photography by Gary Kallenberg

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 adolescent drug problem, which I was too young to be affected by. As a kid, I played almost every non-competitive sport imaginable. This probably contributed to my current indifferent nature. My family moved across the country when I was eleven, tearing my siblings and me from the lifestyle to which we had become accustomed. 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 track homes. We contemplated why the Home Owners Association wouldn’t let us build a tree house in our backyard. They claimed it would obstruct our neighbor’s view of the canyon. However, I slowly made friends in school and around my picturesque neighborhood. I saw movies, went bowling, played golf, and generally did things that you can do in nearly every inhabited region of American. Like an unwanted alien, my stark differences receded over time; and once I adapted, the general course of life resumed, accelerating to the present. As a high school student at Canyon Crest Academy, I don’t have a terrifically profound arts background or a Bachelor’s in design, but I do possess memories from global travels. With my parents I’ve ventured to Spain, the Baltics, China, the Caribbean, England, and a great number of our own country’s national parks. For this, I am thankful.

Artistic Statement Symmetry is a peculiar thing. It 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 for every aspect of life, even when 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 the space-altering singularity of a wormhole. This series explores the stages of time-deceiving travel, from anticipated departure through to arrival.

Elevate

Compress

Accelerate

Commute

Disembark