We printwhat the machineremembers.
not a camera in the building
A studio for photographs that were never taken. Eleven frames to a series, each one held until the grain settles, then numbered and hung.
- Method
- prompt, seed, drift, print
- Origin
- no place, at dawn
- Material
- diffusion, grain, warm dust
- Edition
- eleven frames, seven hung
- Series
- Imagined Light · MMXXVI
Reverie began as a failure of memory. We had been trying to photograph one particular morning for years, and the morning kept refusing. So we described it instead, to a machine that had never seen one, and what came back was closer than any of the negatives had been.
Every frame is generated, then treated the way a print is treated: graded warm against cool, held until the grain settles, numbered, hung. We cull more than we keep. Of the eleven frames in this series, three never leave the archive, one is reserved for the opening, and seven make the wall.
We are not making pictures of light. We are making pictures of the way light is remembered.
The Unnamed · the light before it had a name
From the archive
three of the nineThe archive is open by correspondence.
