because gravity must be a constant

selected images

About this project . . .

because gravity must be a constant

When I was taking a required physics course in high school, we learned about “The Two-Body Problem” and its far-harder cousin, “The Three-Body Problem.” Maybe it was teenage hormones, but to me those sounded more like relationship topics than science equations about gravity. It turns out that gravity can be understood as about relationships, that it expresses attraction and repulsion between bodies. Now, as I look at the evidence of gravity in the world-the draw of tides, the slope of a woman’s breast, the arc of a heavy flower’s stem, I realize the laws of physics are everywhere evident. These photographs began as a semi-serious effort to find visual analogs to all the laws about gravity that I learned so long ago, continued after I’d let go of that idea because by then they had their own momentum.