These pictures are made while standing still; they are multiple yet discrete camera exposures (i.e, not time exposures) taken from an entire scene (i.e., not fragments of a scene). The component images are taken while I am standing still — on a street corner, at an airport, by a lake —and photographing while breathing — one breath, two breaths. ¶

The final image is constructed by aligning the individual frames on a single feature, such as a stationary person or an architectural detail, and then blending the frames into each other.¶

The visual effect is that the picture first seems to be a normal photograph taken from the world, but then it almost immediately dissolves into a construct. ¶

In the animated pieces I'm interested in the slowly evolving layers of perception. Here, the goal is to coax an experience of observational time. That is, the viewer feels a change unfolding but sometimes not until the change is gone. There's a catch in the breath -- almost but not quite noticing something. Sometimes the viewer tries subconsciously to match their breathing rate with the oscillations of the animation, but can't, because the time-cycle is deliberately asynchronous (in a manner of speaking). This is the experience of becoming aware of a distinct here and now/then.