Works in BROTO Science/Art Conference!

This past weekend was a big one! A few months ago, I had two photographs that I’ve been working tirelessly on juried into the BROTO Art Show: Time Sensitive, Juried by Marnie Benney.

Here is the introduction to the show:

“About 4.5 billion years ago, the earth formed.

In an attempt to viscerally understand such an expansive timeline, we can picture those 4.5 billion years condensed into a single 24 hour day. Compressed in this way, humans make a late debut to the Earth Party – arriving more than fashionably late – around 11:59:59pm. And in a second, humans dramatically alter the planet.

How may a perspective of deep time affect our behavior now and in the future? If human presence can be contextualized by a single second, then how might geologically “long” concepts of time help us understand the nature of our impact on the environment? How can it help us consider the damage done within the second of the Anthropocene?

Many of these images show an alien world – land masses under water, and deserted, dusty plains. Yet some images are full of whimsy and hope.

But perhaps this reflection on Earth, time, and humanity’s small place within it, will serve as a humbling reminder of our inability to perceive the greater context in which we exist.”

Both of my photographs which were juried into the show are something I’ve been developing (no pun intended) over the past three years. Through the use of extremely long exposures — some measured in days — this series of photographs shows the long-term results of the environment’s effects on itself and man-made objects alike. The series “Reciprocity” portrays the give and take relationship of nature’s daily cycle. The title also plays on photographic film’s reluctance to record an image during excessively long exposures. In each resulting image, these photographs capture an immense passage of time, begging us to ponder the changing rhythm the Earth faces each day.

So…there we have it…the cat’s out of the bag…