Since Ive been thinking about memory, portraiture, photography and impermanence, I wanted to make a 3 Dimensional kind of temporal experience…
The installation consists of life-size positive and negative photographic prints from appropriated, tintype images of 17 Victorian girls, on semi opaque silk organza. As you walk between the girls the displacement of air from your body moves and drifts the images as if they were breathing…
The tintype, invented in the mid 1800’s signifies an era when portraiture became more accessible, in the form of a cheap tin photograph.
Vanish opens 12-21 November at the Jot Travis Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno
Entrance to Vanish installation
