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Daniel Etherton

B.F.A. Photography

I am a contemporary multidisciplinary artist working between Tokyo, Japan, and Frederick, Maryland. My practice spans photography, new media, and music—each serving as a means of exploring the collective psyche and the fluid boundaries between creation and destruction. Within my work, I seek to isolate quiet fractures in our shared sense of normalcy: spaces where growth, decay, and adaptation coexist. I am drawn to how humans endure constant change, and how, in moments of tension, our inner chaos reveals itself.

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Through high-shutter photography, I freeze fleeting moments to reveal what I consider "window-like" viewports into forgotten or desolate spaces. These still compositions linger in the tension between what feels eternal and what is inevitably lost. In my new media works, I reimagine digital processes—coding, projection, and sound rendering—as tools for emotional interpretation. Through these approaches, I blur the boundary between the tactile and the virtual, creating immersive works that reflect both the beauty and disorder of the contemporary condition. My music, often composed using analogue synthesizers and experimental audio manipulation, extends these ideas into rhythm and tone, drawing from indie electronic and abstract sound traditions.

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At the core of my practice is a philosophy I call Empathetic Liminality: a sensitivity to transition and an awareness of how ideas, identities, and emotions shift through time and space. This framework informs both my subject matter and process, shaping work that exists between the seen and the felt. My explorations often engage deeply personal themes—suicide, alienation, and escapism—as a means of understanding how empathy can persist within uncertainty, and how art might translate the contradictions of being human.

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Through this ongoing practice, I aim to create spaces where viewers can pause and reconsider what they perceive as real, stable, or separate—inviting them, as I do, to dwell within transition rather than resist it.

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