30SECONDS OF LAKE MICHIGAN, film exposed 2014, triptych on darkroom negative film 2015, triptych on acrylic panel 2015, 215 x 71 cm (85 x 28 in), glass etching proposed.
The horizon shifts to create the sense the viewer is standing on boat. This is one of the artworks close to the immediacy of presence in the temporal qualities of lived experience and memory. When mounted in space or on a wall, light passes through the images and create a shadow of the plane behind the image. 30seconds of Lake Michigan focuses on the nature of time, being, and becoming. As photography seeks to represent a moment frozen in time, the nearly frozen lake ebbs and flows. Each frame of film exposed was from a different wave, reconstructed back together as a film strip and mounted as a triptych on clear acrylic. In the way that the field of vision is transparent and direct, the printed images on thin acrylic represent a narrative of the water itself. The state of flow invites viewers to slow down into breathing, witnessing as suggested 30seconds of inhaling and exhaling with the water all at once. The collapse and joining of space and time merge the processes of being and becoming with the goal of transcendence.
