The Edge of Vision: CameraWork
I started to lose my sight about 30 years ago. A gauzy scrim was dropped over my eyes during the course of several years, dulling and flattening the world. Colors were particularly washed out, like hothouse flowers left too long in the Sun. In 2012, my vision was restored in my left eye, a miracle of medicine. As if I had been reborn, those flowers once again looked freshly cut, the reds and pinks and yellows as crisp and vivid and sharp as the first day of summer vacation. The Edge of Vision is a map of that journey, of the colors that emerge when one crosses from one side of sight to the other, from the dark into the light. This portfolio explores the potential of CameraWork in the practice of photography by investigating the nature of multiple and time exposures, movement, and the transposition of light – the very act of perception – itself.