velocityofnature, 2009/2012/2016
Handmade Ilfochrome print (from original photographic collage transferred to 8×10 film)
47 × 72 in (119.4 × 182.9 cm)
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
A burst of bougainvillea, layered through time, becomes a still from the cosmos. Composed from images taken at the home of evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers and refined across seven years, velocityofnature envisions the Earth as in motion—hurtling through space. Like dipping a microscope slide into the river of time, the work captures not stillness, but a moment suspended at high speed. The final Ilfochrome print fuses natural beauty, perceptual velocity, and material precision into a single chromatic surface. The print was exposed by hand from an 8 x 10 transparency. No two prints are identical.