Daily Dust

Observing veiled and cloudy projections through a portable camera obscura, I started this series as daily visual exercises. I found a connection to these otherwise disparate subjects through their quiet and ephemeral qualities; they appeared to be concurrently absent and present and yearning to tell some kind of story.

As I began photographing the projections I gained interest in the photograph’s ability to distill many images within a single frame, long exposures, movement, and subtle traces of objects passing before the camera or interrupting the projection.

Certain details and elements may point to the periphery for the viewer to pause and connect with a potential narrative, while various shapes, forms and shifts in perspective provide a level of ambiguity. I see these fleeting forms as one might see the last dissipating image received on the retina, an image that cannot be retrieved, but only partially reconstructed by memory.