Worlding intensity/ies and energy/ies in a portrait of “Ann”

Abstract

This visual essay draws on Deleuzian immanence as visual-textual storying, framed by shifting energy/ies and intensity/ies inherent in situated ontologies, the non/human posthuman as non-exceptional, and making practices as documentary, multimodal, participatory, and unfinished. Mutually constitutive relationalities are impacted by subtle energetic interventions drawing on dialogic conceptual exchanges around works of art. Photographs and a portrait series are examined in relation to contemporary art, where immanent unstable energies and intensities transform singular worlding moments, framed by spaces, things, times, place; non/human entities offer their own animating presences that further situate and contextualize. As the painting of Ann progressed, a vital stirring presence materialized. Energy/ies took up space in the portrait series, shifting over time, just as the energy/ies that occupy all materialities including non/humans and spaces are immanent and resonant, and always in the process of un/knowing and un/becoming.