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INTERLUDE,
2000
Two
20"x16" juxtaposed canvases, one with a
painting, the other with a mounted printed photograph,
and a 9 minute video projection in loop
Interlude arose out of my investigation into the invention
of photography from a technical, sociological, and
philosophical perspective. From my research I concluded
that time is the essence of photographs, and for this
reason I had been drawn to using photographs as the
basis for my paintings (prior to this conclusion).
It occurred to me that instead of basing the imagery
in my paintings on photos, I needed to bring into
the paintings actual photographs and restore them
with a real time. That is, by animating the photograph
with light fading in or fading out over time, I could
literally bring the photo and its image into a present
time and back into the past. Likewise, the painting
of the ocean on the left is animated with a video
projection of waves rolling forwards or backward,
into and out of present time.
A
variation of this work featured at:
Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, Photographic Memory
and other Shots in the Dark
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