Air Variations is a photographic index of light and air in open spaces of the Connecticut River Valley in southeastern Vermont. This is a process of representing the landscape where emphasis on space is substituted by emphasis on time. I show time and change as concrete things.
I photograph mostly in the blue hours before dawn and at dusk when changes of light and air are intense. The materials I photograph are colorless and textureless: a piece of clear glass against white paper and a sheet of opal glass. These reflect the quality of light and air around them. I am interested in how slight shifts of weather and geography affect quality of light. I bracket quality of light as a subject in-itself.
By photographing these nearly-characterless materials in the same places at the same times of day over a period of years, I show how a place can be represented sheerly by its most ephemeral characteristics, and with regard to the materials photographed, how one thing can be many things. I aim to get toward the heart of what time feels like.
