"Tempus Incognitus" is my series of large scale photographs depicting hotel rooms in which time and space fade into one another and any sense of time is lost. These images challenge our intuition about time itself and pique our curiosity about the stories held within those walls. Think Edward Hopper interiors awash in James Turrell colors with David Lynch directing.
"Tempus Incognitus" records the day's transitional times and shows them existing concurrently. The Cubists painted individual scenes from several different perspectives at once. In this series, I photograph individual rooms at several different times of day from a single perspective.
In traditional photography, change or movement is rendered as a blur and detail is lost, but I use a time-intensive technique that captures detail and emphasizes change in vivid colors. I shoot with a medium-format camera and print on a large scale in order to enhance the impact of the colors and have intriguing details that draw one into an intimate distance. The images are created in camera and on film with no digital manipulation.
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