Time Exposures is a series developed over a period of nine years from 1989 to 1997. This work utilizes a hybrid technique that allowed me to combine a drawing/painting process with photography. In total darkness the shutter of a medium or large format camera was opened. Objects and figures were selectively painted and exposed with strobe and variously sized Mag flash lights. This technique allowed for the repetition of figures and objects throughout space to create a feeling of time passage and animation. It also allowed for the distortion of the human anatomy and the creation of amorphous anthropomorphic forms. These forms and the architectural interiors they inhabit, become metaphors for mental and physical conditions. The architectural interior becomes a metaphor for the interior of the photographer's mind. Time-exposures allow for the creation of images that extend the ability of photography to express a personal point of view. This work was the starting point for research that seeks to represent time as a relative and malleable entity that expands and/or contracts. The photograph no longer represents a frozen moment in time but maps out the distance in between two temporal events which range in duration from:

one minute in

seizure

two hours in

bathtub

six hours in

color apartment

and three days in photos such as

Basement #1, Carol and I.

The intersection between science, physics, math, philosophy and art is the focal driving force for all my work. Scientists such as Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Steve Hawkins (A Brief History of Time) who have studied the nature of space and time and the genesis of the universe continue to be very influential on my current installation works (Cycles, Elements and Spaces in Between,2008).