Memory of Movement (2023-)

In Memory of Movement, I layer moments of time and the movement that occurs across those moments to build a physical presence of something that cannot be seen.  I wonder what goes unseen because humans see only one moment at a time and ask what we might see if human vision were cumulative, like memory or emotion, rather than sequential.  The images in the series offer hints of landscapes, maps, and movement from a place that cannot be seen by human eyes and does not actually exist in a given moment, yet the images assert its existence.      

The raw materials for Memory of Movement include short videos – deconstructed into frames – as well as photographs made using the interval timer in my camera or with myself as a human intervalometer counting the seconds between shutter presses, essentially creating what could be the frames of a time-lapse video.  Each frame or photograph captures one moment, and I often blend them into what appears to be a new still image or place them in a grid to explore what it would be like to see all the moments in a span of time at once or to see the effect of adding a single moment at a time to a blended image.  Each work in the series is created using anywhere from a few to 500 moments. 

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