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"Inheritance" is a response to death trauma through the exploration of grief and intimacy in a declining environment. Ben Dickey explores the process of watching his parents age as a spiritual analog for the pre-emptive bereavement of climate grief and social precarity. Images of environmental volatility, ambient degradation, and abandonment combine to form a lyrical narrative of care, loss, and struggle in a world faced with conflict and instability.
This tension of joy and fear becomes a lens for coming into dialogue with the endemic suffering of our times and the ambient uncertainty brought on by ecological change, political unrest, and social strife.
The images in "Inheritance" combine to form a lyrical narrative of care, loss, and struggle in a world faced with conflict and instability. Together, they paint an emotional journey of fragility and heartbreak, while giving testament to love’s enduring capacity to bond us through suffering, in the formulation of beauty and meaning.
“Turn the page again. Loss is overwhelming and imminent, but every photograph is an act of love. In the unblinking stillness of Ben Dickey’s frame, grief is amplified, and it is rendered beautiful. How else can we face the dread? How else can we transcend it? Against such awesome and indifferent choreography, this is the only meaning — the only antidote — we have. All we can ever hope to possess is love and beauty, forever and for now.” – Stefan Novakovic
