From the Ceiling Above | Photo Series | 2014

Having a background in Interior Design, I am often very aware of the spaces I am surrounded with. I remember while designing spaces at school, our professors always taught us about proprioception, which is the human's sense of space.

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We perceive space through our bodies. Floors, walls and ceilings are enclosures that really affect the way we react to space. Though our reactions to walls and floors are clearer to us since they are in our line of sight, it is ceilings that we sometimes have really high subconscious reactions to. For example, low ceilings may make us feel claustrophobic while very high ceilings may make us feel exposed and insecure. 

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Photographers often like to use a worm's eye view to show the depth of space, for this project I really wanted to take on a new perspective. These photographs aren't necessarily meant to portray a space from above, but they are meant to show the relation of the ceiling to the space below it.  

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