Proximity • Not a Book

Proximity

Mahagony

Mahagony under glass

At the time I got my first cell phone I regularly rode the train.  I wanted to use the camera but didn’t want other riders to see me photographing them.  So I looked down toward their feet and at seat backs and at the floor.  I was looking at things I wouldn’t normally take much notice of.  I was seeing things I hadn’t seen before. The images that resulted were abstract.  

As I was sequencing the images I didn’t imagine them as books.  Instead I mounted them on board and paper so they could stand like screens.  

When I was given the opportunity to show this work I automatically assumed the images should be framed.  Sequences in runs up to four images were in a single frame.  Some longer sequences were mounted on board and displayed in vitrines. 

The Proximity images are dark, printed with matte inks on a matte paper.  Framed, the sheen of the glass obscures detail and the richness of the matte surfaces.  If I were to show the work now I would not show it framed.  I would mount the images on board and set them standing like screens on shelves fixed to the walls.

Passage

Taxi III

Grey Step

Yellow

Black Slipper

Twenty-six photographic sequences, each page size 8 x 12.5 inches, variable lengths when open. Varying number of archival ink jet prints mounted on museum board and Stonehenge paper. 2011-2014.

Mahogany under glass 16.5 x 35 inches. 2011.

Black Slipper Seven archival inkjet prints mounted on museum board. 8 inches high, 54 inches long when open. 2011.