Body/Field: Temporal Inscriptions

2005 - 2008

These images explore landscape, figure, movement, and temporality. The figure and the trace it leaves as it moves through the landscape suggest the temporal nature of all landscapes.

 The landscape in these images are not just temporal slices frozen from the stream of perception, but like the rotating panoramic lens that made them, they are scanned memories of the landscape that appeared before the camera. The images can be understood as performances in the landscape with the revolution of the lens determining the duration of the performance.  The moving and amorphous figure is a poetic response to each landscape and our temporary presence in it.

These images articulate a desire to witness and state what may seem obvious, that we have passed here, not as smart bombs or massive dam projects, but as one person with a foot in contact with the earth at a specific moment in time. Like fragment artifacts found in museums, the foot of the figure in contact with the earth is discernible, unlike the rest of the figure which cannot always be read or understood. Even though the presence of the foot communicates that we have been here, the landscape in its constantly changing temporal state may not register our passage for long.