Firstly, Max photographed Bunny in a straight-forward fashion, but quietly, sensitively. Later on in the project, he decided to create patchworks out of the printed photos, representing the several versions and peculiarities of Bunny. The photos don\u2019t veer into movie cliche depictions of split personalities or extreme mental instability. What Max found in his bloodline was not chaos, but cheerfulness, slight stress, some loneliness. Bunny is as normal as anyone else, evidently. He\u2019s thoughtful, gentle and has spent a long time alone with his thoughts. \u201c[He\u2019s] someone who has often been described rather than properly seen,\u201d says Max. Bunny And I hints at the tension inside all domestic lives, using mosaic compositions to offset what we\u2019re seeing ever so slightly. Like a quietly glitching documentary.<\/p>\n
In some photos, Bunny lies on his back with a drink resting on his hand, other times light falls across his face in the living room. Although he\u2019s alert and enjoys drinking, he\u2019s never out of control \u2013 he\u2019s sharp and \u201cnotices patterns everywhere\u201d \u2013 which manifest in the aesthetic of his own cut-up photographs and indeed inside of his personal notebooks. Bunny and Max share the same laugh, their grandfather\u2019s, and when Max fixed Bunny\u2019s television, an antique model car appeared on screen, identical to the one he had given Max half an hour earlier. It\u2019s in these continuous coincidences that moved Max to realise that blood runs deep \u2013 we can all be quite alike. \u201cBunny and I is not about diagnosis or spectacle,\u201d says Max. \u201cIt is about attention. About what happens when you spend a day really looking at someone you thought you knew. About two relatives meeting again as strangers and finding reflections in each other along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firstly, Max photographed Bunny in a straight-forward fashion, but quietly, sensitively. Later on in the project, he decided…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-599407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}