Walking the Line

Walking the Line extends Prolongance beyond visible self-trace, following objects, surfaces, shadows, seams, markings, and passing phenomena without necessarily revealing my body, shadow, or reflection. My physical presence may be absent from the frame, but my movement still shapes the outcome of each scan. Gait, balance, pace, proximity, and direction determine how the image stretches, flattens, bends, or holds together. The camera stays with the phenomenon for as long as it holds, stretches, or begins to dissipate.

The resulting images can resemble aerial views, drone photographs, diagrams, or flattened architectural fragments, yet they are made from within the space itself, at bodily scale. What appears still or flat is shaped by motion. What begins as surface becomes path. Each image preserves a negotiation between attention, movement, and the camera’s attempt to assemble continuity from a world already changing.

Under the Williamsburg Bridge / BQE Connector - 2024

Kosciuszko Wall

A reflection on Richard Long's seminal piece 'A Line Made by Walking' where he used walking as a medium, creating traces of corporeal presence and bodily action. Also thinking about Johnny Cash.

Ellsworth Kelly @ Museum of Modern Art - 2023

“The most pleasurable thing in the world is to see something and then translate how I see it.”

- Ellsworth Kelly

Kelly made Sculpture for a Large Wall for the lobby of Philadelphia’s Transportation Building in 1957. It features 104 quadrilateral aluminum panels suspended between double rows of horizontal rods, which allow each panel to be positioned upright or tilted at an angle. Upon seeing it as it hung at MOMA in New York for Kelly's 2023 A Centennial Celebration, I was struck by its cast shadows, which to my eye, were as evocative and substantial as the sculpture itself, though one would not exist without the other. I immediately proceeded to translate what I saw as guards suspiciously looked on.