some time, in sum employs found handmade textiles from LocalThrift, a Falls Church City based thrift store. These carefully made heirlooms are rescued from their bin limbo and given a moment in the sun. Taking W.A. Bentley’s Snow Crystals photographs as a point of departure as well as the botanical cyanotypes of Anna Atkins, some time, in sum is a typological study in incomparability. Each textile captures the passage of time as tangible data - a visual repository of knowledge and skill. To execute this work, dozens of cyanotypes were made over a period of months. Each cyanotype is an index not only of the individual textiles but also of the specific conditions of their making: variations in light and minutes on a series of spring days not far from where this box stands. The collection that you see here was made in a two minute exposure on the very sunny third of May, 2024.
some time, in sum employs found handmade textiles from LocalThrift, a Falls Church City based thrift store. These carefully made heirlooms are rescued from their bin limbo and given a moment in the sun. Taking W.A. Bentley’s Snow Crystals photographs as a point of departure as well as the botanical cyanotypes of Anna Atkins, some time, in sum is a typological study in incomparability. Each textile captures the passage of time as tangible data - a visual repository of knowledge and skill. To execute this work, dozens of cyanotypes were made over a period of months. Each cyanotype is an index not only of the individual textiles but also of the specific conditions of their making: variations in light and minutes on a series of spring days not far from where this box stands. The collection that you see here was made in a two minute exposure on the very sunny third of May, 2024.