Line (2006-2014)

Spend time in any active harbor and you’ll see lines wherever you look.  From halyards for hoisting sails to mooring lines used to tie boats to docks.  From the edge of a boat’s gunwale to the railing and grate-like surface on a gangplank.  All are common, everyday objects.  Look down in the water, though, and a bit of magic happens.  The reflections of those lines might start off looking just like their sources, but add a breeze, the wake from a boat, raindrops, or a duck dipping below the surface for food, and the reflection is disturbed.  It curves, stretches, seems to vibrate.  There’s rarely just one line and their reflections meet, merge, and just as quickly diverge.  Shapes and patterns are formed, lasting only for a brief moment.

The images in the Line gallery are an exploration of what can happen when everyday lines, reflected in moving water, are transformed into something else altogether.  The sources of the images are lines, and the images themselves are made up of lines.  But those beginning and ending lines are very different.  And what started as everyday is now far from ordinary.

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