Leo Rising
2016
TRT 9:36
HD Color Video of Installation: mirror, rotating ballheads, hardware, oak plank, monofilament, hand and machine sewn vellum, tracing paper, dowels, balsa wood.
Dimensions Variable
Leo Rising
2016
Mirror, rotating ball heads, oak planks, tracing paper, frottage, balsa wood, dowels, aluminum wire, machine and hand-sewn vellum.
Leo Rising
Mirror, rotating ball heads, oak planks, tracing paper, frottage, balsa wood, dowels, aluminum wire, machine and hand-sewn vellum.
Leo Rising
Mirror, rotating ball heads, oak planks, tracing paper, frottage, balsa wood, dowels, aluminum wire, machine and hand-sewn vellum.
Leo Rising
2016
Mirror, rotating ball heads, oak planks, tracing paper, frottage, balsa wood, dowels, aluminum wire, machine and hand-sewn vellum.
Leo Rising
2016
Mirror, rotating ball heads, oak planks, tracing paper, frottage, balsa wood, dowels, aluminum wire, machine and hand-sewn vellum.
Leo Rising
2016
Mirror, rotating ball heads, oak planks, tracing paper, frottage, balsa wood, dowels, aluminum wire, machine and hand-sewn vellum.
Hercules Setting, and What Came Before
2016
Mirror, rotating ball heads, oak planks, tracing paper, balsa wood, dowels, aluminum wire, machine and hand-sewn vellum.
Hercules Setting, and What Came Before
2016
Mirror, rotating ball heads, oak planks, tracing paper, balsa wood, dowels, aluminum wire, machine and hand-sewn vellum.
Hercules Setting, and What Came Before
2016
Mirror, rotating ball heads, oak planks, tracing paper, balsa wood, dowels, aluminum wire, machine and hand-sewn vellum.
Orion Rising
2015
Mirror, rotating ball heads, oak planks, #4 black theater cord, 1000H paper, found metal stripping, tracing paper, binding clips, frottage, also wood, vellum, thread
Dimensions Variable
Orion Rising
2015
Mirror, rotating ball heads, oak planks, #4 black theater cord, found metal stripping, machine and hand-sewn vellum.
Sun Circles
2014
10 x 10 inches
Digital C-Print
Found sun circles occurring beneath tree canopy, generating dynamic apertures for as long as there's been trees.
Mid Winter Sun Projection
2013
Mirror, hardware, Rives BFK, straight pins
Digital C-Print of installation, 28 x 50 inches
Mid-Winter Sun Projection
2013
Mirror, hardware, Rives BFK, straight pins
TRT 11:25, HD Color video with sound of installation
At a precise distance, reflected sunlight from a mirror projects a focused image of the sun onto printing paper pinned to the wall. In this case, there are actually multiple suns overlapped, their arcing outlines barely discernible towards the lower left. Heat waves escaping through the open door stream across the surface of the sun projection in fluid torrents of whirls and eddies, giving the projection a dynamic wobble.
"DC Sun Deconstruction" ~ Work Process
Dead Reckoning
2015-Present
This multi-year project is inspired by the history of sailing and celestial navigation. Our local star’s daily movement across the sky drives a prolonged composition of light and shadow, animated by time. My reflections of sunlight are actually brightly projected images of the sun itself. Working with small mirrors, I have developed a technique to align multiple images of these projected suns into slow-moving, recognizable constellations.
The durational nature of the work is inherently experiential. Where the viewer is enabled to gaze at multiple images of the sun, experience the earth’s rotation and the passing of time in a singular manner, both alien and familiar.
Projectiongrams
2006-Present
These photographs compress an elaborate sixty-second choreography into a single image. Working with digitally produced slides, I strategically project images onto the landscape, and document the result through time-lapse photography. During the extended-exposure, I move through the frame with a white screen, creating a kinetic projection surface to capture and reflect parts of the projection as it travels through space.
I approach this process as an opportunity to step inside the camera, and darkroom simultaneously, where I become a physical agent in the construction of the image. Within this space I am enabled to work more directly with light, time, and optical phenomena. Through this interrogation of the photographic process I am exploring my own questions regarding the psychology of perception, and its role in the construction of subjective experience.
Nocturnes
2007-Present
My creative foundation was significantly informed by growing up in darkrooms. I learned color printing in NYC in the early 2000’s as the digital revolution supplanted the analog process, but my formative experience working with an enlarger, a point source of light and sensitized paper continues to influence my creative vision. In this ongoing series, I use the relative absence of light at night in order to selectively activate the places in which I work. These activating marks of light and shadow are the product of unique and relatively basic alignments of source, reflection, screen and projection. Some are cultivated consciously, while others are gleaned.