VIDEO
2024 single channel video.
completing edit late 2024
Shot over the course of 9 years on a common iPhone 6, I would point the phone camera in the direction of the sun and allow the camera’s slow autoexposure to gradually render an image out of the brilliant light. Prioritizing access to an immediately available camera source over image quality, I was able to capture a moment anywhere and anytime I felt the impulse. Additionally, the utilitarian nature of the common cell phone felt more like a personal diary or travelogue in its documented entries, which were made over a variety of settings and locations.
Assembled in a continuous string of short clips, each clip terminates at the very moment when the image resolves in clarity, followed immediately by the next clip in the sequence. The idea was to allow the intensity of the sunlight to blow out the exposure and then settle in to a recognizable image, much like the multitude of 1950’s U.S. atomic bomb test blasts would appear when documented on film.
Our sun itself is basically a nuclear explosion, but held static by the properties of gravity. I hoped to simply document our day to day with this phenomena and also reflect on the fact that all life as we know it is a result of its presence.
An accompanying score was specifically composed for the piece for piano, 2 violins, and cello.