With <FUNAMBULIST> I explore the disorienting sense of vertigo experienced in a new home in East London a place that now projects an ostentatious façade with its towering skyscrapers. Here, vertigo becomes a metaphor for our relentless pursuit of progress and success, a reminder on the dangers of reaching too high, lest we risk falling.

In Dr. Davide Deriu’s On Balance: Architecture and vertigo, Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd (24 Feb. 2023), Thomas Brandt explains ‘[h]abituation to height vertigo may occur through repeated exposure, as is observed in steeplejacks, roof-workers, and tightrope artists, who achieve a remarkable degree of postural balance with seeming insensitivity to height’.

As towers ascend towards closer to the heavenly sky, they increasingly detach from the realities of the ground. Those looking down from such lofty heights lose touch with the vertigo they once felt, rendering it irrelevant to both their physical and mental state.

This work draws inspiration from Paul Cezanne´s Mont Sainte-Victoire and Korean expletive "18: ssibal," composed of 18 extreme multiple exposures that visually encapsulate vertigo, introspection, and reflection.

Special thanks to Catherine Yass.