lun.r.002

H A L F - L I G H T S A T E L L I T E

2020

The cycle lun.r.002: Half-Light Satellite expands the use of overt digital manipulation to delve into the concept of liminal time. Like the brilliant colorations that appear for mere moments in the sky and clouds due to the refraction of the sun’s light through our atmosphere at dawn and dusk, the liminal is supposed to be fleeting, temporary, an impermanence defined against the permanence and stability around it. But photographs have this beguiling power to give these transitory moments durability because of course, every photograph is liminal: a single moment, isolated from its context, a transition between a before and an after we can only infer.

In the first months of 2020, as the global Covid-19 pandemic forced us into lockdown and an increasingly chaotic election season began heating up in the United States, borders and boundaries blurred, time devolved, and we seemed to pass through the membrane between reality and surreality, the liminal given uncommon permanence, the world becoming photographic. Trapped in this eerie and unnatural state, time is compressed, expanded, multiplied, and divided so this cycle increasingly stretches time to include an array of components plucked from ever-lengthening durations. Leaning heavily into surrealism, elements derived from a survey of my ever-expanding catalog, are broken down and remixed into montages describing the infinite possibilities of a transformative moment that never comes, the dream that stands where reality falls short.

These images are currently available as limited edition prints in 2 sizes, 6”x8” and 15”x20”