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False Horizon

False Horizon

I look for a beach, usually facing West, and set up my large format camera, often at sunset. As the light fades, I make long exposures of the last few feet of sand, a few feet of water, and the shifting edge between them, allowing the motion of the waves and reflections of the sky to combine in unpredictable ways with the chemistry of the film. I crop the resulting images to exclude the horizon and to emphasize ambiguities of scale and substance, looking for effects that are both seductive and unsettling when printed at large size.

2004-present

Archival Inkjet Prints or lightbox transparencies, 36 to 60 inches long

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