“When we ‘see’ a landscape, we situate ourselves in it.” -John Berger, Ways of Seeing. Temporal Presence is a liminal landscape of a documentary space, a transitional changing neighborhood over the course of a year. Part record and part performance, these interpolated digital-images create long manipulated panoramic photographs. They are a recording of the movement of my body and interpretation to a connected lens. These photographs jar, bend, break, and reconnect to the horizon. Walking down the street the open lens records an indecisive moment, creating a fragmented landscape of moving in a space. A portrait of a place and time. There is a tempo to the movement in the image, a sequence of steps on the pavement falling into a black void at the borders. Similar to lomo-cameras, this work is made with the crude lens of a mobile phone. The difference is the light reflecting back to the camera becomes data interpreted by computer software to seamlessly connect

The full plotter print is 90 feet, but 18 ft is visible at Touchstone Gallery