'70s Sequences
As a young artist I was fascinated by the seminal late 19th century explorations of movement made by Eadweard Muybridge, which are both landmarks in photography and an important precursor to cinema. In this body of work from the mid to late 1970s, I brought a filmmaker’s sense of the interaction between vantage point and the arrested flow of movement, thinking of each exposure as a means of mapping movement through time and space past fixed locations.
The viewing stations from which I created these sequences were varied. Some of the images were taken from windows or doorways, including the 2nd floor window of my loft on the Bowery in lower Manhattan. These sequences are in some cases closely related in actual time while others are formed by images separated by ambiguous time gaps and slight changes in vantage point. They exist somewhere between photography and the cinematic, opening up time and then compressing it into a single matrix.