the heliogenic works presented here
were created in a large former dance studio
located on the second floor of an historic
tuffstone building situated on the main street
of a remote eastern oregon mining town.
the space was large enough that i could
design, build, and install a freestanding
"black cube" darkroom in its high-
ceilinged open-plan layout.

the iron-silver salt photoemulsion
i used at this time was proprietary—
based on an familiar historic van dyke
brown print chemistry. using the same
generative approach first explored in
earlier photograms, i made simple
recordings of transient light and
ambient shadow conditions using
various self-tooled image-
generating matrices.

light was minimally controlled in
these works. visual variety was introduced
as factors of distance and intensity—
the primary relationship of the light
source to the receptive/responsive
emulsion-coated surface of the paper.

one image (untitled #601) is nothing
more than a completely unfiltered
recording of the scientific phenomenon
of optical interference, as generated
by light from a point source passing
through a sequence of regularly
spaced apertures.

conventional tray processing
was used to manufacture these
unique, one-of-a-kind works.