Turboparalysis, 2014
Lens-based automatism
Wall sculpture
Laminated handmade Ilfochrome print in welded aluminum frame (collaged from multiple 120 film exposures, transferred to 8×10 film)
51 × 51 × 2 in (129.5 × 129.5 × 5.1 cm)
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
Part of an ongoing inquiry into lens-based media operating in non-depictive, automatistic states, Turboparalysis traces the azure sky over Lower Manhattan onto a single roll of 120 film—shot, rewound, and re-exposed to inscribe gestural intervals onto each frame. The images are then scanned and subjected to recursive transformations: doubling, inverting, rotating, until a latticework diamond emerges, balanced delicately on its axis. Transferred to 8×10 film and hand-printed as unique Ilfochromes, these works hover between analog and digital registers. No two are identical, each sustaining a precarious architecture of chance and control.