Placeholder artwork: leaf shadows drifting across a sunlit plaster wall

Series 02 · Ongoing

Gigantically
Subtle

Nine photographs of one wall, one afternoon, one plant — hung as a single line so the light moves left to right across the room.

About the series

The subject is the passing

There is a plastered wall on the south side of the building where I live. From about half two until the sun drops behind the roof opposite, the fig in the pot below throws its shadow onto it. This happens every clear day and almost nobody in the building has noticed.

I photographed it at roughly twenty-five-minute intervals across one afternoon in August, always from the same spot, always at the same focal length. Nine frames survived. Nothing was moved, added or waited for beyond the light itself.

Hung as a line at eye height, the sequence reads the way the afternoon read: slow, then suddenly over.

Year
Ongoing
Frames
9, shown as one sequence
Method
Natural light, handheld, no filters
Print
Archival pigment on cotton rag
Size
50 × 62 cm each
Edition
8 sets + 1 AP
Status
Available to exhibit

The sequence

The sequence — 14:30 → 17:40

Click any frame to view it large, then use the arrow keys to walk the afternoon.

In the catalogue

3 works from this series

Each has its own page, with the note behind it and the print details.

They are of an ordinary Tuesday, photographed slowly enough that it stops being ordinary. From Words