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Sword of the Sun is an evolving riff on the experience of time and how photography is central to the measuring of its passage. Pictures slice time, like a sword, into bits and pieces and objects offer tactile evidence with which no image can ever compete. The title is drawn from a short essay by Italo Calvino where we hear the the main character contemplate his place in the world while drifting through a nameless sea at sunset. This work is my attempt to gather, reassemble, and propose the arc of time, made visible through pictures and objects, as is transits through my life and the world around me.
Sword of the Sun, September 30 - November 4, 2016, Convergys Gallery, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sword of the Sun was organized by Will Knipscher as part of Cincinnati's FotoFocus Biennial 2016.
Pictures courtesy of the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
Divining Rod Tripod / Scaffold
2014, archival pigment print, 11" x 14" / 2016, plotter prints, 52.5" x 42" each
Scaffold (detail)
2016, black and white plotter print, folded in quarters (unfolded), 52.5" x 42"
Heavy Flowers
2016, unique archival pigment print, unique maple frame, 22" x 16"
Psychedelic Body
2016, exhalations, marblized latex balloon
Drag and Drip II
2013, unique gelatin silver print, 14" x 11"
Infinite Field VII
2016, mixed media, MDF, poplar
Infinite Field VII (detail)
children's sculptures, home grown crystal, 3D printed crystal replica, bundle of photographs, air dry clay, stick with chewing gum, rock, repaired rubber bands, thermometer, blank handmade book, burnt stick, my first smart phone, window tint, quikrete black mirror, unique gelatin silver print
Infinite Field VI (detail)
2016, found photograph, unprocessed gelatin silver papter, plastic fork, 3D printed plastic fork replica, broken plastic knife, burnt birthday candles, archival pigment prints, plexiglass, unique gelatin silver print, laser print
The iterative exhibition, Sword of the Sun, very loosely intimates the contents of a story of nearly the same title in the book, Mr. Palomar, by Italo Calvino. In the story, the reader hears the internal monologue of an elderly man, Mr. Palomar, while he is swimming in a nameless sea at sunset. Altogether, the work in the exhibition is a drift through the wilderness of my home and yard, a skid through the nature of time, and an examination of how we fragment and compartmentalize the world for the purposes of contemplation and understanding.
Sword of the Sun, September 30 - November 4, 2016, Convergys Gallery, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sword of the Sun was organized by Will Knipscher as part of Cincinnati's FotoFocus Biennial 2016.
Pictures courtesy of the Art Academy of Cincinnati.