Sun Notations, 2015-ongoing

Sun Notations, part of an ongoing body of work titled “Good Luck with the Sun”, focuses on the sun as both a subject and creative tool to reflect upon our physical and psychological connection to our planet’s closest star.

For this project, pinhole cameras (made from soda cans, cookie tins, and other small containers) capture the sun’s pathway over time, with exposures that can last from a few hours up to two years. The cameras, which sometimes contain multiple pinholes, are rotated periodically, so the rhythm of the sun’s movement becomes a drawing process or mark-making system, like the routine of crossing days off a calendar. Light leaks, dirt, water damage, embedded dead bugs, even rips in the paper, become part of the visual alchemy and function as metaphors for the delicate balance we share with the physical world. Here, time and space expand, overlap, and then dissipate as clusters of dust appear like stars and the landscape morphs into abstraction. Titles for the images, such as “Since you’ve been gone” or “70 days after the election,” frame exposures around personal and collective experience, giving the work a diaristic context, inviting viewers to consider how our lives align with the cosmic cycles.

*Images are first captured in-camera on traditional film or photo paper and printed on museum cotton rag. Sizes range from 12” up to 70”. *To see more from this series, please contact artist directly.