Orb: Twenty Flashes, Red, Aqueous (2026, Looking Deeper: Emerging Concepts)

Description: Pinhole photography image transfer to board mounted on backing board.

Details:

Pinhole photograph, 120 film. Inkjet image transfer via acrylic gel medium on gesso panel, mounted on hardboard. Single 5x7 inch panel. Artwork 8x10 inches. Framed with glass.

This is a constructed sunset: light reflected off a circular object, its color set by a gel placed in front of a flash, exposed twenty times on one frame. The image was made with a homemade pinhole camera. The colors were then pulled onto the panel by hand, using acrylic gel medium. The transfer is not perfect by nature, and what it alters stays in the object. It shares its subject with Paradigms, Aqueous, which takes its structure from Warhol.

This piece studies what the transfer does, held alone without the comparison a grid invites.