I’m friends with Rylan Steele, but I have never met his family or talked to him about this body of work. Once he told me: I don’t photograph people. Later, he told me: I’ve been photographing my son.

In Coupled, Dodd graduate candidates Alex McClay and Chasity Williams examine the promise and paradox of twos. Through this collaborative exhibition, they mine the ways in which humans are bound to and reflected by their material objects, personal relationships, memories, and intimate and domestic spaces. The artists contend that such coupling offers both constraint and freedom. The human psyche is bound to its material and immaterial belongings.

In Mutter, Philadelphia-based artist, Lee Webster, uses video collage and photogrammetry, a digital process that recreates physical objects in digital space by stitching together many still photographs, to explore the physical experience of loss. “Mutter” is also an onomatopoeic word for human speech that is undecipherable. Webster’s video examines the aural word as a visual one, creating a video essay that tries to convey the distance, muddle, and muteness of loss.