25 MINUTES 2018
In 2016, I embarked on a series of studio wall meditations, Meditation on a Studio Wall. While the large camera was focused on the studio wall taking its 25 minute exposure. I too would focus my gaze on the wall for the same period of time. I documented these ‘sittings’ with 25 minute time exposures using my 4″ X 5″ analogue camera.
With this project I was interested in kinds of experience gained through the process of meditation versus photography. It was interesting to me how the eye of the camera was focused on the same spot that my eyes were focused on. The same light that reflected off of the wall into the camera lens and negative was also reflected into my eyes.
For this piece I enlarged one of the 4″ x 5′ photographs and printed it as a vinyl wall mural. Next to it sits a framed image of the studio wall taken by the large camera during the 25 minute exposure time. The camera building and photographing project was a collaborative project with Trudi Lynn Smith and is elaborated more fully on the posts:
