Body Temporalities

 
 
 
 
 

  1. Full Twist [midday], 2020, cotton curtain, cyanotype solution, curtain rod, and hardware, 110 x 42 inches

  2. Full Twist [early evening], 2020, cotton curtain, cyanotype solution, curtain rod, and hardware, 110 x 42 inches

  3. Full Twist [night], 2020, cotton curtain, cyanotype solution, curtain rod, and hardware, 110 x 42 inches

 
 
 
 

  1. Shadow Body [night], 2020, cotton curtain, cyanotype solution, curtain rod, and hardware, 55 x 84 inches

  2. Shadow Body [midday], 2020, cotton curtain, cyanotype solution, curtain rod, and hardware, 55 x 84 inches

  3. Shadow Body [early evening], 2020, cotton curtain, cyanotype solution, curtain rod, and hardware, 55 x 84 inches

  4. Shadow Body (detail) [night], 2020, cotton curtain, cyanotype solution, curtain rod, and hardware, 55 x 84 inches

 
 
Stasis (detail) [night], 2020, cotton curtain, cyanotype solution, curtain rod, and hardware, 55 x 84 inches

Stasis (detail) [night], 2020, cotton curtain, cyanotype solution, curtain rod, and hardware, 55 x 84 inches

 
 
 

Body Temporalities is the name of an ongoing series of my work addressing how human bodies can be used to measure and comprehend the passage of time. The project began in April by wondering “How long have I been here? How long will this last?” These questions were in reference to the shelter-in-place orders keeping myself and others at home and although they were mixed with some amount of despair, it was curious to note how people’s collective understanding of time was changing. Regulated and structured time was fading while more organic time was returning. It was no longer Tuesday at 2 p.m., it was mid-afternoon two days after I last went to the grocery store. Thinking of the oldest system of time measurement, the sundial, I sought to use shadows and their time-sensitive form and pair it with another time-sensitive medium, photography. Combining the two then using my body not to perform but to stand still, I was able to create images that capture a specific time without a regulated format. These images were captured on translucent cotton curtains and were hung in the same way a curtain would be, in front of a window at home. The windows in our homes are the portals through which we see the physical world currently. Considering the distance I feel from others currently, it felt only right that now whenever I stare out my window, there is something looking back.

 
 
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