The Monotropic Pull is an installation consisting of forty-two handmade silver gelatin prints made from five black-and-white negatives (Cloud, Bed, Tree, Sea and Staircase). Through repeated darkroom printing, small variations in exposure, contrast, tone and occasional double exposures make each print unique.

Installed directly on the wall, the work changes depending on where the viewer stands. From a distance the images appear almost abstract, while closer viewing reveals subtle differences between each print.

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The work was first shown in the exhibition Between the Lines at the former Munch Museum in Oslo in 2025. The installation became the starting point for Monotropism, an ongoing analogue photography project developed following my autism diagnosis in 2025. What began as a single installation has since expanded into a growing body of interconnected photographic series exploring how monotropic attention—a tendency towards deep and sustained focus—can become a photographic method.