This past month I was fortunate enough to travel to Los
Angeles. While in LA Super Storm Sandy hit our area fairly hard. We returned to
a home without power. Three days later, eight inches of snow fell. I slipped on
a patch of ice while shoveling the driveway and hurt my wrist which is now in
puffed up to twice its size and in a brace (had x-rays, no fracture) It is
difficult to type this as my fingers keep missing the keys. Between being away
and then being dislocated by the storm, I’m feeling a bit disconnected and unfocused. I
feel I lost a bit of my momentum and am trying to get back up to speed. The internet just came back on today.
While in LA I photographed the Pacific Ocean. I am posting
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans here one on top of the other BUT in installation I
want to project these on opposite walls of a narrow room, restricting the
viewer’s sight line. The overall length will be about 20 feet. Seeing them here
may be a bit underwhelming and you need to image it as a room of crashing
ocean. I want to engage the viewer in his or her own sense of perception. One
cannot see the imagery in its entirety but must scan the surface, experiencing
a decentralized gaze. The ocean and sky are photographed in a straightforward
documentary manner. In each video the same section of ocean and sky are
photographed and rephotographed over a time span of about an hour. My intent is to display a kind of
inventory of time, a layered temporal experience. The water is photographed in
a downward perspective and the sky, looking up. When edited together in a grid
flattens and abstracts the vastness of the ocean.
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