Strip : Prints and Studies (2011)

These images, presented as variously sized Duratrans Lambda prints on elongated, mostly horizontal low-profile light-boxes, are excerpts from studies and vignettes executed using a system similar to that utilized for the Strip video projects. In this instance, the action performed in order to take the shots is somewhere between the instantaneous snapping of a photo and the constant shooting of a video: it is choreographed to capture a moment of motion through space as a frozen series of frames, comprising a single fragmented panorama, very much indebted to Muybridge, among others.

Strip / O was shot on the site of the Oprah Farewell Spectacular, around United Center in Chicago in May 2011.

Underground Studies are images from the initial excursions undertaken as preparations for a third Strip video, this time under and over the surface of the northern part of the Chicago Loop, a uniquely multi-layered urban space.

Strip: Iris is a project in which a body was scanned using a similar continuous motion, additionally mediating the body’s image through it’s reflection in the scanning person’s eye. It utilizes a special miniature eye-camera, such as used in my video Coms Device. The first two images in this series are nude self portraits.