Solastalgia, 2017
Chromogenic print (composed entirely in-camera; no digital post-production)
Dimensions variable
Edition of 5 + 1 AP + 1 studio proof (first edition)
Chromogenic print (composed entirely in-camera; no digital post-production)
Dimensions variable
Edition of 5 + 1 AP + 1 studio proof (first edition)
Solastalgia, 2017, created entirely in-camera, is part of an ongoing investigation into nature, time, transience, loss, and technology’s mediation and fragmentation of reality. In the work, the sun is represented by a vintage 1970s glass globe lamp that belonged to the artist’s paternal grandmother. The lamp, now in the artist’s studio, resided for decades in the living room of the family’s lake house—a gathering place for the extended family and a site of healing after loss The everyday object, captured as a picture-within-a-picture, transforms a beacon of absence into a luminous source of enduring light. At the same time, the role of the image itself—and its deepening significance in the mediation of human experience—looms large. Derived through the rephotography of screen-based digital imagery, Solastalgia preserves the layered artifacts of mediated vision within a singular, in-camera composition.