Curiosity feeds imagination!
Creative ideas come and go! Some intrigue us, others are discarded for reasons too trivial or overly complex. Shown below is one of the end results in an on-going photographic series conceived and began in 2014, Theory Over Time.
Each theory number explore the changes happening through space and light in differing locations over time. The first frame of each one is exposed at the photographer’s discretion. The remaining nine are exposed at exactly six minute intervals regardless of what is in front of the camera. It will be whatever that moment of time is!
My close high school classmates from the old neighborhood used to call me “the almighty observo.” Offered as a comical rebuff—a reminder they were not like me in many ways. I internally challenged myself, and took it as a compliment!
The serendipity that happens within each Theory Over Time series set is like the limitless differences there are between all humans. No two moments of our lives are the same. If so, you’re not alive! I invite you to imagine the possible moments in between the actual moments that were photographed. The infinite possibilities are mind boggling!
Some technical stuff—All theory numbers relate to time-lapse photography, but in a different way. Moments in time are maintained in order for the viewer to “see each one.” Typical time-lapse involve hundreds—maybe thousands of photos to create a “moving set of photographs.” Compressing stretches of time into smaller stretches, ie: continuously photographing over twenty-four hours, compressing it into a one-minute video/film.
Time-lapse was of no appeal because the focus of each one is the compression of time, not the individual photographs that make it what it is. Once again, Theory Over Time does the opposite. It takes an hour of time and maintains the hour within each set of ten photographs.
If someone ever told you that you’re “odd,” “silly,” “weird,” “eccentric,” or any other off-the-cuff offense—relish in it! They’ve credited you with being uniquely different. In a world of sameness, being different is an extraordinary personal attribute.
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As always, I appreciate you—and happy to see you’ve read the newsletter through.
Til next time…
Kenneth