Here is a link to my Artist’s Talk Presentation from Tuesday: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/123f5a8FFlOSEh6ISg3_63jO3NyuYUavbmsb-qSlFweY/edit?usp=sharing

My Artist’s Statement as it stands now:

Using the processes and practice of digital photography as a base, I explore time and motion as I experience it. I go beyond conventional photographic practice to embrace both traditional drawing techniques and New Media approaches. A photograph is an image of a moment in time of a certain duration, from a fraction of a second to minutes to hours. It is a physical record of that moment. The camera makes us a cyborg in a sense, giving us the ability to compose and capture the image of that moment in an instant. I am interested in interrupting that process, and adding the subjectivity of my hand. Using a camera lucida, I become the sensor, and record the image of what I experience, distorted by my feelings and by the connections that my mind makes as it does when I am dreaming. The world of my images now is the environment I see every day, my children on summer vacation and scenes around my home in the late days of Covid 19 isolation. I am exploring my relationship to my family and my surroundings in the context of time passing, thinking about what the future will hold and making work that is a record of the present moment, to be carried into the future with hope.

The practice of digital photography has also unexpectedly led me to explore physical computing as another facet of my research-based practice. I am designing and building machines that mark time, experimenting with clocks as a meditative device that can help us in developing a consciousness of deep connection to the natural cycles which we are a part of. I am fascinated by the computer as a tool to control movement based on inputs as another way to create meaning and explore our world visually.