The New Sky, 2012
Archival pigment print or handmade Ilfochrome print, composed from original photographic source material, artist’s frame
48 × 72 in (121.9 × 182.9 cm); dimensions variable
Edition of 10 + 2 AP
The New Sky, 2012 is part of an ongoing series which deconstructs elements of nature into technologically influenced states. Doubling, inverting and combining vernacular photographs of the New York City sky, the work references the substantially changing elements of our natural world, and solastalgia, defined as a “form of emotional or existential distress caused by environmental change.” The New Sky employs destructive image compositing, compression, and chance to generate a set of interference ‘clouds’ which appear to seamlessly emerge from, and bridge, the original images of the sky.
This work was created during a period of reflection on the changing environment, and how those changes are reflected in the sky. It was later revaled that 2012, the year this work was created, had the hottest winter on record, with an average temperature of 43.1 degrees. By 2020, it was announced that New York City, where this work was created, was officially designated a subtropical climate zone.
Further bringing the work into permanent “in between” state, the digital image is transferred to 8x10 film, and the print is exposed, by hand, from this transparency. No two prints are identical.
This work was created during a period of reflection on the changing environment, and how those changes are reflected in the sky. It was later revaled that 2012, the year this work was created, had the hottest winter on record, with an average temperature of 43.1 degrees. By 2020, it was announced that New York City, where this work was created, was officially designated a subtropical climate zone.
Further bringing the work into permanent “in between” state, the digital image is transferred to 8x10 film, and the print is exposed, by hand, from this transparency. No two prints are identical.