1978  Spatialization of Time    

Photographs are the spatialization of time. But when we look at a photograph, we often confuse then and now, and the photographic flattening of time and space lulls us into believing photographs are a truthful transcription of reality. Thus, our obsession with content in photography. I wanted these pieces to demonstrate how photography created our automatic assumptions about an event or our experience of place. I made the shapes and chose the way they interacted with the camera images, creating simple examples of perspective, quality of light, and foreground, middle ground, and background...those things we rely on to "read" a photograph and equate it with the real world, whatever that was.