Each composition from the series begins with a traditional photograph that incorporates visual elements only captured through the technology of a camera. A lens flare, an obliterating reflection, and an amplified light source conspire to block our sight and understanding. Ink and resin are then applied to the image and allowed to build and pool, compounding the viewer’s blind spots and blending the artificial lines between painting, sculpture, and photography.

The physical choreography of the surface combines the documentary and the handmade, and the intimacy of scale and raised texture lend to close looking. As we traverse the picture, energy builds and swells, merging opposing moments of sublime and peril, beauty and horror, and excitement and fright, never letting go of either sensation.

For Soren, Some Blows Are Heavy is the natural progression from Surface Tension, in which she shot photos through a screen. Now, Soren creates the screen by hand on top of her photographs and further investigates factors of agency and subjectivity.