Work samples
About Lynn
Lynn Cazabon is an artist whose practice spans from a foundation in analog photography to projects that incorporate printed and virtual photographic images, audio, video, and virtual and augmented reality within socially engaged contexts. Her multifaceted projects are scalable, site-specific, and often involve participation of specific communities of people. In order to reach a wide and diverse audience, she seeks… more
Losing Winter
Site-specific participatory art project, video, audio, augmented reality mobile app
Losing Winter is a site-specific, participatory artwork and archive of memories and emotions about winter, revealing the personal and cultural ties we have to the season and providing a window onto what we are collectively losing due to climate change impacts on seasonal patterns. The project addresses the phenomenon of environmental amnesia, wherein with each new generation the changed or degraded state of the environment is perceived as normal, by preserving personal memories about the season as it was in the past in a particular location. The project is activated through the participation of local communities, site-specific exhibitions, and virtually through a dedicated augmented reality mobile application. Losing Winter was first realized with the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, Romania in 2018 and has since been realized in several other iterations. Each activation of the project is unique and site-specific.
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Losing Winter
Stills from videos, from realization of project hosted by Witte Rook in Breda, NL, and created with community partners Park Zuiderhout, an elder adult living community, and Podium Bloos, an innovative theatre. Projected video, photographs, audio, fabric, steel, Foley sound.
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Losing Winter
Detail of installation at the StadsGalerij in Breda, NL, hosted by Witte Rook and created with community partners Park Zuiderhout, an elder adult living community, and Podium Bloos, an innovative theatre. Projected video, photographs, audio, fabric, steel, Foley sound.
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Losing Winter
Losing Winter is an ongoing, site-specific, participatory artwork and archive of memories and emotions about winter, revealing the personal and cultural ties we have to the season and providing a window onto what we are collectively losing due to climate change impacts on seasonal patterns. The project was initiated by artist Lynn Cazabon in 2018 and is activated in different locations around the world. Each activation is unique and site-specific.
This video documents the realization of the project hosted by Witte Rook in Breda, NL, October 2023 - January 2024.
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Losing WinterStills from augmented reality mobile app.
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Losing WinterExcerpts from the Losing Winter AR mobile app as viewed at The Peale Museum in Baltimore, MD.
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Losing Winter
Still images from 24 videos, for project as realized for the Oresman Gallery at Smith College. This iteration of the project fostered an intergenerational dialogue between people aged 60+ in Springfield, MA and Smith College theatre students.
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Losing WinterExcerpts from two videos from realization of Losing Winter for the Oresman Gallery at Smith College. This iteration of the project featured an intergenerational dialogue between people aged 60+ in Springfield, MA and Smith College theatre students.
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Losing WinterView of Losing Winter exhibition at the Maryland Center for History and Culture. Recorded memories about winter collected from Marylanders of different ages were presented within a historical exhibition of photographs and films showing Maryland in winter over a 100 year period.
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MELT
Still from Melt, 4K video featuring custom made ice sculptures inspired by memories about winter shared by Bucharest residents. Created for the realization of the project at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania.
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MELT4K video that is part of the project as realized with the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania. The video features custom made ice sculptures inspired by memories about winter shared by Bucharest residents placed in key locations inside and outside the museum.
Uncultivated
Site-specific artwork, geo-referenced photographs, public displays, website, community workshops
uncultivated.info
Uncultivated is a site-specific, scalable project focused on wild plants within urban landscapes. The project draws attention to plant species that are typically rejected as weeds but which are able to thrive in the harsh conditions we have created in cities and are increasingly found around the world. Each photograph has a corresponding webpage containing detailed information on all the plants appearing in them, the location, and the date it was taken. Public displays show images taken in the vicinity of the display venue and workshops are hosted in collaboration with the local communities in which the project is realized.
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UncultivatedDocumentation of site specific installation, 6 of 12 photographs printed on canvas, 88.5" x 59" each, Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennial, Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan.
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UncultivatedDocumentation of site specific installation, 6 of 12 photographs printed on canvas, 88.5" x 59" each, Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennial, Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan.
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UncultivatedDetail of site specific installation, 1 of 12 photographs, 88.5" x 59" each, Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennial, Tsung Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan.
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UncultivatedPhotograph and text, documentation of poster in bus shelter on Hunts Point Blvd, Bronx, NY, 65" x 45", created under South Bronx Resiliency Arts Fellowship. Includes common names of highlighted plant in Spanish.
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UncultivatedPhotograph and text, displayed as poster in bus shelter on Hunts Point Blvd, Bronx, NY, 65" x 45", created under South Bronx Resiliency Arts Fellowship. Includes common names of highlighted plant in Spanish.
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UncultivatedPhotograph and text, documentation of poster in bus shelter on Hunts Point Blvd, Bronx, NY, 65" x 45", created under South Bronx Resiliency Arts Fellowship. Includes common names of highlighted plant.
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UncultivatedDocumentation of Urban Wild Plant Cameraless Photography Workshop, International Center of Photography at The Point, Bronx, NY.
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Uncultivatedphotographic mural produced for WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland, 11 feet x 10 feet
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UncultivatedSite-specific photographic mural for facade of WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland, 10 feet x 16 feet
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UncultivatedDetail, site-specific photographic mural for facade of WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland, 10 feet x 16 feet
Ecomimesis & Ecobiont
Ecomimesis
Site-specific virtual reality environment
Ecomimesis is a site-specific VR environment containing animated virtual plants that offers viewers an intimate encounter with growing plants in an accelerated life-cycle. The species featured is Conyza canadensis, a common urban ‘weed’ chosen for its prevalence in human crafted landscapes that is at same time often 'invisible' to most people as they choose to ignore such so-called nuisance species. The project is designed to be customized for the venue in which it is shown so the architecture of the space is represented within the animation. Ecomimesis was inspired by Charles Darwin's The Power of Movement in Plants in which Darwin documents his observations of how plants move as they grow.
Ecobiont
Video, audio
Ecobiont is a triptych of visual stories focused on the physical labor and maintenance involved in scientific research, featuring scientists and staff at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology in Baltimore. A modification of the word holobiont, ‘ecobiont’ is a system that encompasses the networks of microorganisms, animals, plants, technology, and human culture, as aspects of evolutionary change. Ecobiont features three parts of the sustainable land-based aquaculture system being developed and refined at IMET, which due to massive overfishing and the collapse of fish populations around the world, will likely play a large role in how humans obtain fish for food in the future.
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EcomimesisStill from VR animation, as customized for exhibition in the Science Gallery Lab Detroit, 2018
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EcomimesisVideo of animation from view of VR headset, as customized for exhibition in the Science Gallery Detroit, 2018
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EcomimesisStill from VR animation, as customized for exhibition in the Science Gallery Lab Detroit, 2018
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EcomimesisStill from VR animation, as customized for exhibition in the Science Gallery Lab Detroit, 2018
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EcomimesisStill from VR animation, as customized for exhibition in the Science Gallery Lab Detroit, 2018
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EcomimesisStill image from VR animation in generic gallery space
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Ecobiont: RegenerationStill image from Ecobiont: Regeneration, featuring Dr. Kevin Sowers from the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology in Baltimore.
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Ecobiont: RegenerationEcobiont: Regeneration is one of a triptych of visual stories focused on the physical labor and maintenance involved in scientific research, featuring Dr. Kevin Sowers at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology in Baltimore.
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Ecobiont: Life-DeathEcobiont: Life-Death is one of a triptych of visual stories focused on the physical labor and maintenance involved in scientific research, featuring Dr. Keiko Saito and staff in the Aquaculture Research Center at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology in Baltimore.
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Ecobiont: MaintenanceEcobiont: Maintenance is one of a triptych of visual stories focused on the physical labor and maintenance involved in scientific research, featuring staff in the Aquaculture Research Center at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology in Baltimore.
Diluvian
Unique gelatin silver solar photograms
The images in the Diluvian series were created using expired black and white photographic paper and lengthy solar exposures. These unique cameraless, contact prints feature shadowy images of discarded electronics, which persist in the environment long after their obsolescence, juxtaposed with organic materials, highlighting their vastly different rates of decay.
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Diluvian40 unique gelatin silver solar photograms, @ 8" x 10", total dimensions 53" x 87"
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Diluvian40 unique gelatin silver solar photograms, detail of one print 8"x10"
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Diluvian 11unique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 24.5" x 21"
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Diluvian 12unique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 24" x 21"
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Diluvian 14nique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 25" x 21"
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Diluvian 15unique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 24" x 21"
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Diluvian 16unique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 24" x 21"
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Diluvian 26unique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 20" x 19.5"
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Diluvian 2unique silver gelatin solar photogram, 11"x14"
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Diluvian 9unique silver gelatin solar photogram, 11"x14"
Baltic Portraits
Photographs and text
Baltic Portraits is a trilingual project situated at the intersection between the genres of portraiture and landscape. The project consists of a series of fifty portraits of residents of Liepaja, Latvia, standing at the edge of the Baltic Sea displayed with a quote about the role the sea plays in their lives, along with eight long-exposure photographs of the sea taken just after sunset. Latvia is one of the three Baltic countries, with a complex history of occupation by Nazi Germany and the USSR for a majority of the 20th century. The Baltic Sea forms Latvia's border on its western side while Russia borders its eastern side. With tensions with Russia currently erupting across the region, the Baltic Sea is a visible reminder of the vulnerability of this small country.
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Baltic Portraits (Irina)photograph and text, 60" x 30", text in Latvian, Russian, and English
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Baltic Portraits (Geoff)photograph and text, 60" x 30", text in Latvian, Russian, and English
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Baltic Portraits (Lidja)photograph and text, 60" x 30", text in Latvian, Russian, and English
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Baltic Portraits (Eriks)photograph and text, 60" x 30", text in Latvian, Russian, and English
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Baltic Portraits (10 seconds)photograph, long exposure of Baltic Sea taken after sunset, 33" x 50"
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Baltic Portraits (Faina)photograph and text, 60" x 30", text in Latvian, Russian, and English
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Baltic Portraits (Bruno)photograph and text, 60" x 30", text in Latvian, Russian, and English
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Baltic Portraits (8 seconds)photograph, long exposure of the Baltic Sea taken after sunset, 33" x 50"
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Baltic Portraits (Tatjana)photograph and text, 60" x 30", text in Latvian, Russian, and English
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Baltic Portraits (1 second)photograph, long exposure of the Baltic Sea taken after sunset, 33" x 50"
Portrait Garden
Photograph, text, audio, community collaboration
Portrait Garden is a metaphorical garden of 'portraits' of eleven women incarcerated at Maryland Correctional Institution for Women, a multilevel security prison. Portrait Garden used environmental stewardship as a tool for self-reflection and resulted in the creation of three perennial gardens on the prison grounds. The display of the project consists of a collection of photographic prints of the cultivated plants paired with text and audio statements from each woman.
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Portrait Garden (Carrie, Echinacea purpurea)Photograph, text, audio, community collaboration; presented as interactive poster for Baltimore Light Rail, 22" x 23"
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Portrait Garden (Carrie)excerpt from audio part of portrait, 02:43
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Portrait GardenDocumentation of posters installed in Baltimore Light Rail trains
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Portrait Garden (Carlita, Mertensia virginica)Photograph, text, audio, community collaboration; presented as interactive poster for Baltimore Light Rail, 22" x 23"
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Portrait Garden (Carlita)excerpt from audio part of portrait, 01:22
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Portrait Garden (Wendi, Hemerocallis 'Pardon Me')Photograph, text, audio, community collaboration; presented as interactive poster for Baltimore Light Rail, 22" x 23"
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Portrait Garden (Wendi)excerpt from audio part of portrait, 01:07
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Portrait GardenDocumentation of posters installed in Baltimore Light Rail trains
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Portrait Garden (S, Dryopteris erythrosora)Photograph, text, audio, community collaboration; presented as interactive poster for Baltimore Light Rail, 22" x 23"
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Portrait GardenDocumentation of exhibition of project held in Maryland Correctional Institution for Women
Junkspace
Time and location sensitive animation, custom software
Junkspace is a time and location sensitive animation that dynamically visualizes space debris tracking data, using images of earth-bound electronic waste as stand-ins for debris in orbit above the viewer. Using custom software, orbital debris tracking data, and the user’s location, the movement of animated e-waste on screen aligns with the path of pieces of debris in orbit above the user’s location. The project draws attention to a central problem of technological innovation: objects that persist in the environment long after their functional and stylistic obsolescence. The project originally also existed as an iOS app.
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Junkspace
still image from animation
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Junkspacesample of animation
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JunkspaceInstallation inside former mikveh in White Stork Synagogue, produced for WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland
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JunkspaceInstallation inside former mikveh in White Stork Synagogue, produced for WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland
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JunkspaceProjected animation onto a 2-sided translucent screen adhered to front window of gallery at ISEA2012 Machine Wilderness exhibition, 516Arts, Albuquerque, NM
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JunkspaceProjected animation onto a 2-sided translucent screen adhered to front window of gallery at ISEA2012 Machine Wilderness exhibition, 516Arts, Albuquerque, NM
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JunkspaceProjected animation onto a 2-sided translucent screen adhered to front window of gallery at ISEA2012 Machine Wilderness exhibition, 516Arts, Albuquerque, NM
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JunkspaceInstallation of projected animation, custom prints on fabric installed in windows, ZERO1 Biennial, San Jose, CA
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JunkspaceInstallation of projected animation, custom prints on fabric installed in windows, ZERO1 Biennial, San Jose, CA; detail of custom prints on fabric installed in windows
Discard
Pigment ink jet prints and Fuji Crystal Archive prints
Discard is a body of work consisting of several discrete series of photographic prints featuring movie films discarded by public institutions (libraries, schools, archives). Harking back to the 19th century practice of postmortem photography, each print serves as a memento mori to an obsolete film. More generally, the series reflects on the often arbitrary process that determines whether cultural artifacts are preserved or discarded.
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Discard 2 (The National Archives, College Park, MD)3 pigment ink jet prints mounted in Sintra, 42" x 86" each
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Discards 2 (The National Archives, College Park, MD)print #1 or 3, pigment ink jet print, 42" x 86"
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Discards 2 (The National Archives, College Park, MD)Detail of print #1, pigment ink jet print, 42" x 86"
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Discards (University of New Hampshire Libraries, Durham, NH)50 pigment ink jet prints, 12"x12" each
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Discards (University of New Hampshire Libraries, Durham, NH)detail, 1 of 50 pigment ink jet prints, 12" x 12" each
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Discard 9 (The National Archives, College Park, MD)pigment ink jet print, 42" x 36"
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Discard 3 (Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore, MD)pigment ink jet print, 40" x 70"
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Super Eight (8 seconds of 34 films)Fuji Crystal Archive print, 42" x 96"
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Super Eight (8 seconds of 34 films)Detail, Fuji Crystal Archive print, 42" x 96"
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reelreel (digital video, 2 mins 46 sec) shows a profile view of a film reel in fast motion while the audio is in real time. As the film becomes progressively smaller on the reel, the light behind the projector gets brighter, de-materializing and optically transforming the image of the reel as it turns. The singular nature of the image produces a zen-like meditation on the materiality of film and its obsolescence as a representational technology.
Story of M
Installation of 140 Lightjet prints, video, viewer-activated audio, ink jet prints
Story of M presents the viewer with fragmented details (images, sounds, films) of an anonymous man’s life across several decades of time. These various elements set the stage for multiple narratives to be constructed – the shape of any one story reflecting back to the viewer their own subjective “M”. The viewer's movement in the second room of the installation randomly triggers one of 200 audio clips to play, incorporating them into the shaping of the work.
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Story of MInstallation at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
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Story of MInstallation at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
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Story of MDetail of 140 Lightjet photographs
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Story of MDocumentation of installation at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
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Story of MLightjet print, 8"x10"
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Story of MLightjet print, 8"x10"
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Story of MLightjet print, 8"x10"
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Story of MLightjet print, 8"x10"
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Story of MLightjet print, 8"x10"
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Story of MLightjet print, 8"x10"
Plaids
Chromogenic photographs and photograms
Plaids combines super-eight movie film and a labor-intensive, hand-made process. Each print in the series was made from dozens of individually developed and toned strips of super-eight movie film woven together, each containing a mini-narrative embedded within the film frames. These sequences feature short performances by the artist as well as frames from found footage. These images are 'photographs' of film which at first glance are abstract, referencing pixels, paintings, and textiles.
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Plaid (the large plaid)60 chromogenic photographs, total size: 8' x 16', installation at Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO.
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Plaid (the large plaid)60 chromogenic photographs, total size: 8' x 16', detail
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Plaid (history of a sexuality)Chromogenic color photographs mounted on 4 black plexiglas panels, 7' x 13', installation at Galerie Vox, Montreal, QC.
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Plaid (history of a sexuality)chromogenic color photographs mounted on 4 black plexiglas panels, 7' x 13', detail
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Plaid (slapstick)chromogenic color photograph, 30" x 40".
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Plaid (slapstick)chromogenic color photograph, 30" x 40", detail
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Plaid (rewind)sequence of 30 chromogenic photographs, 20"x24" each, detail
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Plaid (rewind) DETAILsequence of 30 chromogenic photographs, 20"x24" each, detail
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Plaid 7 (red paranoia)chromogenic photogram, 24" x 20".
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Plaid 7 (red paranoia)chromogenic photogram, 24" x 20", detail