Photograms 2006

For my exhibition in the annual MFA/BFA 2006 show, I created a portfolio of photograms. In the show, I exhibited three large prints and a 64 page hand bound book. These photograms were made by combining homogeneous materials and dye between two pieces of transparency paper and then scanning them. I allowed for a divergence in the passage of time to capture different textures and surfaces. In part, the process owes itself to the scanner itself, as scans would often take upwards of a half an hour, the scanner would heat the 'prints' and the materials would alter and grow.

This work presents a two dimensional space that has a three dimensional depth and asks the viewer to decide if what they are seeing is from the eyes of a microscope, or those of a great telescope. For each of these photograms, it is in the eye of the beholder to determine what is micro and what is macro. Fun fact: I broke my ankle two days before the show, hence the cane.