RADIUS

RADIUS is a series of 4x5 self-portraits that took shape in an effort to catalog the artist’s first 90 days of sobriety. By delving into experiences of isolation, loss, and persistence, the work examines the intersection of body and environment, looking at the female form as both a natural and architectural presence. 

Photographed across the United States, RADIUS also attempts to confront the deep frustration and understand the contradictions and destructive consequences that American capitalism and industrial greed has on the land. Mirroring the degradations wrought by intensive land use and those caused by addiction within her own body, the series examines how the human form struggles to adapt to a world of industrial damage, as it also struggles with the personal obstacles of recovery. The photographs in RADIUS seek to investigate the cyclical nature of destruction and restoration. 

Samantha Jensen (b. 1997) is a Brooklyn-based artist from California whose practice spans photography and self-portraiture, drawing inspiration from figures such as Gina Pane, Carla Williams, and Hannah Wilke. Her work examines intimacy and fragility, the familial and the environmental, and the collision between personal and public histories — speaking to a sparing, sometimes removed view of intimacy, and the mirroring often found within relationships, either between each other or the spaces in which we inhabit.