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Mountains, Moving, 2012 – ongoing, considers an analog history of photography within the digital torrent
that is its current technological manifestation. I steady my focus on the mountain: oldest subject, stable object,
singular, immovable landmark, site of orientation, place of spiritual contemplation. I employ smartphone
camera apps to make new photographs of the images of mountains that appear in canonical master
photographs. I find them everywhere: in books, magazines, advertisements, online. Pointing my iPhone down
at these mountains, the hallucinogenic colors of the camera app filters blend with the disorienting effects of
the iPhone’s gravity sensor. Photo grain, dot-screen, pixel, and screen resolution collide, often performing
undulating moirés. My mountains are unstable, mobile, have no gravity, change with each iteration, remastered.
Here is the biggest distance, the longest range. I present a dialogue between distance and proximity,
limited and unlimited, the singular and the multiple, the fixed and the moving, the master and the copy. I
propose an inverse correlation between the number of photographs that exist of mountains at any one time,
and the stability of photography at that time.
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