What began as a desire to photograph my sculpture in natural light grew into a body of work that integrates photography, sculpture, and performance. An open ceiling wooden cube, eight feet to a side with apertures facing east and west, was built in a meadow in upstate New York. The structure became a studio, a theater, and an analytic “camera” or room. The chair, not always shown but ever-present, stands in for the artist, the audience, and the analyst.

 

The photographs both narrate the unfolding of the room’s interior, temporal life and record its exterior deterioration from weather and time. This series acts as markings of the art-marking process, fixing its otherwise mutable nature. What is recorded here provides the base on which other work is built and serves as a lexicon to the sculpture and performance to follow.