EVERYTHING SUSPENDED
Have you ever visited a place and come away feeling like it was a dream? Have you tried to capture that feeling with a camera and come away disappointed?
This ongoing series of images collectively entitled Everything Suspended, is an exercise in capturing this transcendental feeling we experience when exploring landscapes.
When we explore a landscape, the experience is multi-dimensional – including not just visuals, but the smells and sounds of the landscape. When we photograph, we reduce this multi-sensory world into two dimensions. Something is invariably lost in the process. The pinhole camera’s lens-free view – the actual obscuring of the scene – allows the true feeling of the landscape to come through.
By layering the imagery in-camera, these multi-exposures seem to exponentially increase this impression or feeling in the final image.
The genesis of these images, spending mornings and afternoons shooting long pinhole exposures of cloud formations, was a zen-like pastime. Re-exposing the film with additional subjects felt more like cliff diving.
