The Last Sunsets

2023–present · Daily Photographic and Video Documentation

An ongoing practice of photographing and filming the sunset. What began as a daily commitment has evolved into a sustained meditation on endings, attention, impermanence, and the act of witnessing.

Thousands of images accumulated over three years. An archive of a single recurring moment seen through changing light, weather, seasons, and states of mind — each frame both identical and utterly distinct.

Origins

The project began as a simple daily practice: document the sunset every day, without fail. Over time, the commitment has become more intermittent — several times a week rather than daily — but the central question remains: what does it mean to witness the same ending, day after day, and to leave a record of that witnessing?

Context

The project extends research begun during the MA thesis on documenting ephemeral and performance art — applying the same questions about documentation, authenticity, and the trace to a long-form practice of sustained attention. It exists in dialogue with the Theseus/Ariadne framework's tripartite approach to digital curation and meaning-making.

Archival Challenge

The accumulated archive — thousands of unsorted raw files — presents its own curatorial and organizational challenge. How do you make a mass of images accessible and meaningful without losing the texture of the individual moment? How do you organize an archive of repetition? These are questions the project itself raises, and that the ongoing work continues to explore.

Selected images and project documentation forthcoming.