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Portfolio I
Clockwork
Accession No. A0022-11 / 02-26-2013 / Medium Format Film
This was a technical exercise in motion capture and exposure calculation. The mechanism is a dismantled electric timer found at a local transfer site. Internal wheels could be set in motion by manually actuating the gear train. The wheels would continue to move for several seconds before stopping again. To calculate correct exposure for lens extension and to express motion well I used a Polaroid film back to make several test exposures. When the best exposure time was determined, I installed the standard film back and took the image you see here.
Equipment: Hasselblad 205TCC camera, Carl Zeiss 110mm f/2.8 lens, Macro Extension Tube, Ilford HP5+ film, Ilfotec DD-X developer, Fujifilm FP-3000B instant (Polaroid type) film.
“When I first saw the ICA art wall, I was struck by the duality between the impact, presence and physicality of the wall and the transparent enclosure of the space that stretches out into Boston and beyond. The title of the work is “Clockwork for Oracles.” I see the work as an effort to include the world, to reach out and fit it all together. The 52 window/mirrors have each a different color, are hung on a newspaper covered wall. My intention is to represent the world using the metaphors of window, mirror and newspaper. This formal trinity provides a structure for the continual unfolding of our life and times. The cut up arrangement of colors and sizes helps to avoid the single narration by vehicle of its mass potential meanings. Thus the viewer as narrator is always at the mercy of his own narration. Like a human being in a state of meditation, inhaling and exhaling, the work comes to exist as an empty screen with endless possibilities.”
- Ugo Rondinone
Tiny watch gears in black epoxy in a carved tear.
Aves apoxie is wonderful to paint as is Citadel's black chaos paint with a very deep black.
This is an image born of a roving mind whilst contemplating what is surreal. The intention was not the mostly known novel by Anthony Burgess in 1962 entitled Clockwork Orange, however, i guess this image would serve the title well. I would never endorse violence, therefore i object to the self chosen title and its associated link to the book and film but 'birth of time' was just too yeuk........
These are just some photos we took at Clockwork Alchemy in San Jose. Just a wonderful group of people there.
In this photo you see a part of an old clockwork which stands in a museum in Barcelona. Under the church (or whatever) was a excavation of roman city. I went there with my girlfriend, probably never would have gone by myself. Overall it was interessting, but at the end of the tour through the museum there were things unrelated to the rest in there. Some mathematical graphs and this clockwork. Didn't really fit but hey, got a good shot there.
Photo taken with my D7000 and my 50mm.