Installation view of Gradual Withdrawal of an Ocean at Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 2013.
The installation materializes the experience of light as a physical phenomenon, specifically as it relates to photography. The room is illuminated only by an overhead light shaft and hung centrally is a large paper: one side is black to absorb and the other side white to reflect, dividing the entire room into a gradient. The photographs exhibited present a variety of situations where the presence and absence of light is central to the image and how passage of time is perceived: classical views of the ruins in Greece shot during a trip with my mother, a crack of sunlight under the bridge of a New Haven construction site, a horizon of ocean and sky in southern Chile. They are all monochromatic silver gelatin and salt prints except for a found color photograph of daffodils which rests on the the paper, the ripples of the flowers echoing the curl of the paper’s edge.
Installation view of double-sided paper suspended from the light-shaft. One side of paper is white to reflect sunlight, the other is black to absorb it. No additional lighting. 2013
Collaboration with Carlos Vela Prado
Installation view Gradual Withdrawal of an Ocean, series of 8"x10" silver gelatin photographs where each strip is an increasingly longer exposure until the white paper reveals an image and finally becomes black. 2013
Half of an Hour, 20” x 20” each, series of 4 silver gelatin photographs taken from one viewpoint (documenting a sliver of light) with an interval of 10 minutes between each photograph. Silver gelatin photographs, mat board, wood shelf. 2013
Scaffold, series of ten 16” x 20” silver gelatin photographs on matte fiber paper. Each photo captures a different stage of one drawing made overtop of an existing photograph. 2013
Untitled Landscape, series of 4 salt prints, each print is a cropped view of a different landscape. Salt print on rag paper, mat board, wood frame/shelf. 2013. Collaboration with Carlos Vela Prado
