Short Research Statement:
Approaching a photographic landscape tradition that embraces poetic combinations of image, text, produced through hand-eye exercises. I replace the lens of my camera with a myriad of glass objects found or manufactured in and around the city of Lancaster, Ohio. I spread light across the landscape for intimate documentation in mark making, some site specific, some temporary, some through unrecorded movements and touch.
Documentation of place through abstraction, landscape (real and imagined) and industrial and pedestrian objects are a means of accessing ideas about past and present identities of this region — the home of Anchor Hocking Glass, and other early industrial forces of glass manufacturing from the 1940’s on—and the effect of its collapse- a shattered lens.
As for light passing through this place at this time…
Wipe off grime left by raw ungloved fingers,
Now we write a sentence or two attempting to connect this object with its production.
Think aerated surfaces and combined myth-landscapes in a schematic arrangement on paper for consultation.
[hand-eye activity] Place a glass object in the path of the sunrise shining through your front dining room window [or another window of similar size and shape]. Identify a shape of light projected onto a surface nearby. Draw its shape, the refracted light on the wall. Scan a facet of the glass object in your hand, drawing the tip of your finger across the edge of an appalachian prism.
