PicSpill is a visual sketchbook, a series of photographs created outside the boundaries of any predetermined project. I am exploring and experimenting with the creation of book spreads that emphasize a binding between pictures made months apart and yet randomly connected on the same page. My collection starts in 2017 and ends in 2025, the span of seven years and two iPhones. As I began cataloging my photographs by date and location, subtle patterns of time, change, and repetition began to emerge —an ongoing visual diary of pandemic years, isolated days, political protests, my yearly trips to my home in Turkey, and the myriad everyday moments in between. Organized chronologically the collection links images in serendipitous ways to evoke narratives that transcend the individual image, creating a cohesion that goes beyond the sum of its parts. 

 

PicSpill parallels the social media “photo dump” posts. The book’s design mimics a curated collection of images of daily life that also stands in for an individual’s identity. Photographs that were meant to be on the web are here collected in a book bound with a wire-o type coil that makes it look like a notebook, or possibly a sketchbook. PicSpill is a meditation and note-taking on the chaos of everyday life. 

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