Selected Gallery:
Durational portraiture
Gelatin silver prints, cassettes: 60’00” audio track, 11’00” audio track, 16’00” audio track
2020
Durational portraiture is self referential, the premise of it derived from the method of which the portraits were made. Exploiting the reciprocity failure of large format photography, each image was taken in a low-light setting with exposure times ranging from ten minutes to over an hour. The photographs condense a period of time into a single frame. However, a still image taken over a vast canyon of time still does not contain within it the physicality of time. The picture is not durable, but rests at the cusp of still and moving image. The integrity of the figure is both solidified in her stillness and decayed in her motion.
To reintroduce the collapsed moment, each image is paired with an audio track that spans the duration of the photographic exposure. The sound is constructed from the scanned negative of each photograph. Each photograph is echoed by its spectrogram and a pixel to audio raw data conversion, with various methods of encoding (16-bit PCM, U-LAW, VOX). After the image is processed into its respective sound artifacts, each sample is then stretched out to the duration of the exposure time. Behind the framed images sits hidden a small cassette player within the wall. The final form of the audio is analog, as a reference to the analog nature of film photography. When installed, each image hums its existence to the viewers as they traverse the space occupied by such extends of time.