Nicholas David Burns
About
Nicholas David Burns’ work is grounded in sensory perception — shaped by his lived experience as an autistic artist and his deep bond with the tactile world. His artistic practice explores how we each navigate the world through different cognitive and sensory realities, shaped by individual modes of perception, sensation, and experience.
His process, which he calls touch-walking, is an act of sensory listening — an attempt to dissolve boundaries between the human and non-human, and to open new ways of perceiving through a neurodiverse lens.
Nicholas works primarily with medium and large format film photography and uses liquid light – a chemical emulsion allowing darkroom printing on any surface – to leave a photographic translation of how the body remembers through contact, gesture, and vibration.
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