BRAIDED SAND
“Braided Sand. It was a century before they got glass to let light in. Unlock it and reign. A slipper, a coffin, a difference in crystal.”
- The Glass Age
Cole Swensen
Braided Sand explores the relationship of optical technologies to earth materials as a means to consider the natural and manmade processes of transformation that are the bases of photography and other imaging technologies. In doing so the work questions the taken-for-granted use of these materials, juxtaposes human and geologic timescales, and grapples with the poetry of these materials alongside their inherent relationships to extraction and photographic practices of dominance.
Digital Video TRT 14:40
between 1 & 2
“real life is so secret...”
- The Passion According to G.H.
Clarice Lispector
Drawing from mathematical knot theory, visual music, and histories of western esotericism, between 1 & 2 explores what emerges as material expression and subjective perception shift between two- three- and four-dimensional space.
audio/video loop, flameworked borosilicate glass
Stratalimn
EXT. GARDEN NIGHT
S & O SIT OUTSIDE UNDER A WAXING MOON
S
what if the rock could be a lens
O
and if it’s not a question of if but when ....
excerpt from Stratalimn
Glass Rocks (size variable)
time pieces
an image of nothing
no camera, no negative, no object
unique gelatin silver prints
inchoative aspects
the beginning of a state
unique gelatin silver prints
