Lumen Notebook: All is Not Lost, 2018
Hewnoaks Artist Colony, Lovell, Maine
During this artist residency, I produced a lumen installation in response to a set of drawers built into my studio wall. Because you cannot chemically fix lumen prints without the colors changing or disappearing, I elected to exhibit the fugitive prints inside the drawers.
In this installation, the exposure of the images to light is controlled by opening and closing the drawers, preserving the image - or changing the image at the viewer’s discretion. The images are sun prints made with books and notes found in my cabin’s library, on nature, ecology and the landscape.
In order to “fix” lumen images, in other projects, I employ a scanner. The use of this tool lends to a larger conversation about time I’m interested in, wedding earliest photographic process (lumen printing) with new technologies (scanner).