The Stillness Of Motion : Changing Polar Landscapes

The Stillness of Motion: Changing Polar Landscapes evokes a visceral experience of an Arctic and Antarctic that is both haunting and beautiful, distant yet intimate. Reflecting traditional non-dual perspectives of the Inuit, these photographs offer a re-imagining of the circumpolar regions in subjective and experiential terms. Instead of pitting Man against Nature in the dualistic language of conquest, this work highlights the truly inter-connected and inter-dependent nature of our relationship to this world and to these vast and barren places.

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This series can also be seen as a visual contemplation of the spatial-temporal concepts of motion and change as they act upon our polar spaces.  The frequent use of motion blur evokes a sense of movement and impermanence that calls attention to the fragile and fleeting nature of these frozen lands, as well as to the motion that exists within all space, from atoms and celestial spheres to glaciers and tectonic plates.

The photograph has long been held up as a symbol of our ability to capture space and freeze time, both literally and figuratively facilitating the colonial ambitions of control. Yet the camera is merely an instrument of space and time, a tool of our subjective imagination. A photograph is not an objective truth; invested with intention, it exposes the mind. And in so doing, reveals that mind and space are one.

In imaged space, movement can manifest in abstraction, impermanence, in impression, time, in blur. A long exposure can emulate the action of eternity upon the earth – for inevitably, time denies space its form.

Image Specs:
Limited editions of 10, 16”x20” silver gelatin prints. Select images are also exhibited at 48″x 72″ in editions of 4. Mounted on aluminum.