The Points of Departure Series
The Points of Departure Series
The Unidentified/Points of Departure Series consists of digitally captured and manipulated photographic images and dye-sublimation printed on aluminum.
Viewers may detect a reference to analogue photography due to the intentional addition of borders, which hint at or simulate wet plate and large format processes, as well as vintage negatives. This visual reference ties the work to photography’s history, as well as my own history, being that some of the negatives, which were scanned and used as a digital layer within the images, came from my father’s private collection of negatives.
The first stage of the process included photographing takeoffs and landings at night, with long exposure digital captures, from the inside of an airplane looking out. The title, “point of departure,” can be read two ways: one being a literal meaning, leaving from a particular point in space, and the other referring to that which acts as the starting inspiration point to create from. The presentation of the images on a substrate of aluminum links the finished work with its origins, airplanes, which are made of aluminum.
The Points of Departure Series
The Unidentified/Points of Departure Series consists of digitally captured and manipulated photographic images and dye-sublimation printed on aluminum.
Viewers may detect a reference to analogue photography due to the intentional addition of borders, which hint at or simulate wet plate and large format processes, as well as vintage negatives. This visual reference ties the work to photography’s history, as well as my own history, being that some of the negatives, which were scanned and used as a digital layer within the images, came from my father’s private collection of negatives.
The first stage of the process included photographing takeoffs and landings at night, with long exposure digital captures, from the inside of an airplane looking out. The title, “point of departure,” can be read two ways: one being a literal meaning, leaving from a particular point in space, and the other referring to that which acts as the starting inspiration point to create from. The presentation of the images on a substrate of aluminum links the finished work with its origins, airplanes, which are made of aluminum.