Bottleplay 3

Bottleplay 3

Bottleneck Slide

A photograph is a claim of permanence.
It says: this happened, and it will stay this way.

The original image does exactly that. A hand, a bottle, a moment fixed long enough to be trusted. The object knows what it is. The frame holds it in place. Nothing moves unless memory moves it later.

Bottleplay 3 begins there — and then refuses to stay.

Once brought into Without Square, the image lets go of its obligation to be still. The square no longer pins the moment down. The edges loosen. Gravity becomes optional. What was once fixed becomes suspended, not frozen but hovering — caught between states rather than locked into one.

This isn’t abstraction for its own sake. It’s a shift in time.

In the photograph, the bottle is permanent.
In Without Square, it becomes temporary again.

The hand no longer documents possession; it suggests motion. The object no longer rests inside a moment; it drifts through it. The image stops saying this was and starts asking what if it doesn’t stay.

You might still recognize where this came from. That recognition arrives quickly — and then dissolves. What replaces it is movement without destination. A form no longer anchored to use, brand, or outcome. A moment allowed to continue rather than conclude.

This is what Without Square changes.
It doesn’t destroy the photograph — it releases it.

I like the original image because it holds time still.
I like this version because it gives time back its motion.