How is a photograph a breath?
The holding together is a breath.
I want to use balance and precarity together in the skin of the photograph. I want to see the photographic document made vast--capacious enough to hold materials pulled from various registers of the world—refusing 2 dimensionality.
Photographic documents can be generated by:
1. Placing photo paper on feet for the duration of a day, then developing them in the darkroom.
2. Printing photos on felted fleece, becoming material warmth: a blanket, a texture, a touch.
3. Placing into a precarious balance -- held with rubber bands, plexi, copper piercings, angle iron, rocks. Angle iron touches plexi; plexi magnifies the photographic paper; the photographic paper holds a letter to my daughter.
The resulting balance is an abstraction; it is a construction. Image pushed together through my touch deciding the relation, placed on a wedge, pulled out and held with a rock. The resulting works call out to the body of the viewer. One must move around the image to see it, a photograph in fragments of dimensionality and relation.
The work -- and its subjects -- and its participants -- an exhaled balance with time, environment, material.
