photography & PHOTO RELATED WORK
Light is…
No moment, no memory is recollected in the same way. My photo-based work explores the ways in which image and process are vehicles for remembrance. Light is at the heart of this intersection.
It is the principle and vital vehicle of the conveyance of image and time.
I work in the darkroom and with less traditional photo process (cyanotype). Each print is singular and unique. I do not print multiples in order to emphasize how a photograph is, at its most elemental, a literal capturing of light, a document of light, specific to time. Cyanotype relies on the nuances of light conditions to activate the image; those prints track, in live time, a set of specific conditions, which cannot be replicated repeatedly.
The robust physicality of this work is intentioned––the irregularity of the page, the brush marks and the uneven layers of emulsion are painterly and gestural. I embrace the unruliness of photographic process and experiment with it by pushing its potential within the confines of the medium. This, in cooperation and combination with image, creates a unique visual dimensionality, in which the evanescence of light is captured to reference time and memory as it might appear, or be experienced, in the mind’s eye.
In harnessing the light, image and moment become signifiers for memory: mementos of time.
No moment, no memory is recollected in the same way. My photo-based work explores the ways in which image and process are vehicles for remembrance. Light is at the heart of this intersection.
It is the principle and vital vehicle of the conveyance of image and time.
I work in the darkroom and with less traditional photo process (cyanotype). Each print is singular and unique. I do not print multiples in order to emphasize how a photograph is, at its most elemental, a literal capturing of light, a document of light, specific to time. Cyanotype relies on the nuances of light conditions to activate the image; those prints track, in live time, a set of specific conditions, which cannot be replicated repeatedly.
The robust physicality of this work is intentioned––the irregularity of the page, the brush marks and the uneven layers of emulsion are painterly and gestural. I embrace the unruliness of photographic process and experiment with it by pushing its potential within the confines of the medium. This, in cooperation and combination with image, creates a unique visual dimensionality, in which the evanescence of light is captured to reference time and memory as it might appear, or be experienced, in the mind’s eye.
In harnessing the light, image and moment become signifiers for memory: mementos of time.
