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Building Exhibit, Cornerstone Center, New York, January 2005
Installation views
ARTIST STATEMENT
The agile molecule of the urban environment, the building is land, tree, hive of human activity, and canvas of nature’s and man’s marks. In these photos, I treat buildings as landscape, as concrete and glass trees rising to the sky, and as the canvas where light is the brushstroke.Several of these photographs continue formal experimentation with representing the glance. Using camera motion to demonstrate what our eyes convert into visions of solid objects and “clear” reality, I strive to capture a film impression of a reality that is more in flux than we admit.
Two of the photographs show how buildings serve as reflective canvases, taking on unexpected images on their glass facades. It is ironic that such ultra-contemporary surfaces play host to antique brick and organic clouds. The photographs of 29 Union Square West and 909 Third Avenue are examples of light’s own graffiti. I refer to these light marks—the opposite of shadow—as “lightow.”
Most of these images continue a new foray into digital capture, where I have used camera techniques I developed using film with a Sony digital camera and digital output. The images are not manipulated, however, in the computer. I blended technology in the 909 Third Avenue construction, which is shot on film with my 1972 Minolta and then “pixelated” into tiled panels of digital output. The 29 Union Square photograph was taken with a 1952 Rolleiflex and printed traditionally in a darkroom.
