Iced Fictions
I began working on Iced Fictions in 1998 as a desire to return to image-making while working in sculpture. These "fictions" are created by freezing sculptural objects and materials into ice blocks and forms. They began as a metaphor for what the camera does—freezing moments in time. This is an ongoing series.
These images exist in a mythological territory suggested by ice and the state of being frozen. It is a state of being located between preservation and annihilation.
This project has been supported by a grant from the Artists' Resource Trust, a fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, 2000
This project has been supported by a LEF NEW ENGLAND General Fund Visual Arts award, 2002
Ice Vases
Implication # 1, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 2, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 3, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 4, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 5, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 6, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 7, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 8, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 9, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implications
Implication # W9A, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # W9B, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 15, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 10, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 12, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 14, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 9, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 11, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 13, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 7, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 16, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Implication # 8, 2007, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Frozen Birds
Frozen Bird III, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Frozen Bird II, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Worlds
World III, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
World IV, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
World V, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
World VI, C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Contained
Chorus I, C-print, 30 x 40 inches
Chorus II, C-print, 30 x 40 inches
Portraits
Opelia I, Polaroid, 40 x 30 Inches
Opelia II, Polaroid, 40 x 30 Inches
Mythology I (Mark), C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Mythology I (Anna), C-print, 40 x 30 Inches
Polaroids
The first images were made on the Polaroid® 20" x 24" camera and eventually on the Moby C 40" x 90" Polaroid® camera in NYC, the only one of its kind in the world. I am grateful to Mark Sobczak for his invaluable assistance as the masterful camera operator. The making of the large Polaroid images requires trucking freezers of frozen sculptures to New York for photographing. Each Polaroid® 40" x 90" image is a unique print (one of a kind). Stilled Suburb I, II, III, is a horizontal triptych 27 feet in length.
Double Vortex, 1998, Polaroid, 24 x 20 inches
Untitled, 1998, Polaroid, 24 x 20 inches
Cone I, 1998, Polaroid, 24 x 20 inches
Stilled Suburbs
Suburb, 1998, Polaroid diptych, 24 x 40 inches
Stilled Suburb I, 1998, Polaroid, 40 x 108 inches
Stilled Suburb II, 1998, Polaroid, 40 x 104 inches
Stilled Suburb III, 1998, Polaroid, 40 x 110 inches
Stilled Gardens
Stilled Garden II, Polaroid, 40 x 110 inches
Stilled Garden I, Polaroid, 40 x 110 inches
Vertical Forms
Cone II, 2001, Polaroid, 40 x 110 inches
Cone III, 2001, Polaroid, 40 x 110 inches
Murder in the Garden, 2001, Polaroid, 40 x 110 inches
Column of Desire II, 2001, Polaroid, 40 x 110 inches