Shuffles Nervously

Eli Regan
Shuffles Nervously

"People dine, just dine, but at that moment their happiness is being made or their life is being smashed."

Chekhov

This is the essence of what I wanted to capture in my vignettes in 'Shuffles Nervously'. The feeling that with some rough sketches in seemingly mundane settings you can suggest whether a character is breaking or celebrating.

The images can be read as the places in between where the characters exist- a lone bench, abandoned warehouses, shadows, a path, a road, an allotment. Both the vignettes and the pictures exist as a series of observational, alluding sketches rather than definitive portrayals of the places and people.

The voices used for each vignette make the stories come alive. They lift them from being my own true if subjective experiences and become fictional and communal happenings.