Light and Weight

Feather, unnumbered edition of ten + AP, 2009

Light in both mass and material, a feather is an example of an object whose translucency means that in negative, as here, it appears as in positive. Contact prints have the additional advantage of grainlessness, reproducing high detail in a way that other photographic techniques cannot.

Borealis, 2008/9 edition of 3 unique photograms, 1.25 Meters wide, various lengths.

A direct exposure on color paper of light off a mirror ball in the darkroom. Exposed, processed, then inverted, it looks like a dome of night sky, with eclipse and borealis. A concrete photograph.

I carry you with me, Film Installation, ZBC, Chicago, 2005

The idea is of an Intimate Cinema: an audience of one acting as the point of projected reception. A 16mm projector projects a physically large loop of film onto no surface. Instructions beside a pile of white, cotton gloves tell participants to wear the gloves and hold the projected light, moving their palm to focus the image. The cotton gloves project fragility and delicacy. The images are of my now-dead dog, Coco; I think they are the prettiest images that I’ve ever recorded.

3D (VG), edition of 5 unnumbered unique contact prints, 16"x 20", 2009

Contact prints are negatives. Laying a pair of 3D glasses onto a piece of color paper in the darkroom results in a white shadow because the light can't go through the cardboard. However, where light is able to go through the red filter, it leaves the impression of blue and where it is able to go through the blue filter, it leaves the impresion of red. Cutting out the arms brings the 2D image into the third dimension of true stereo depth. That last part was Vesko Gösel's suggestion, hence the VG.

Miller Apparatus, OH enlarger, tea candles, 2008

Physics and Biology have people in common.