Artwork title : Peter, Shirley and Louis
Peter, Shirley and Louis is one example of what I call “Moving Portraits”. Sitting at the intersection of photography and film, these works are a manifest art form defined as “Tangitals” (hybrid of tangible and digital; framed digital movies). Captured in a single slow-motion event, posed fig- ures first appear to be static, yet there’s the subtle movement of a cantilevered lamp or steam rising from a boiling kettle. Periodically the pose changes slightly, then holds static again. I am exploring tableaux portraiture with moving image, inviting viewers to become the intensified gaze of an artist, replaying the memory of a certain “sitting.”