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Between infinitude and a negation of extension, between an infinitude and a negation of number, between an infinitude and a negation of movement, between an infinitude and a negation of time. From which we may learn to estimate ourselves and our true value, and to form reflections which will be worth more than all the rest of geometry.
—Blaise Pascal, The Geometrical Spirit

I remember hours of silver and light
—Rimbaud, Vies (Les Illuminations VII: Lives)

Space Craft is a series of black & white photographs of anamorphic wedge prisms, and isosceles and equilateral triangle prisms. I photograph the prisms as though architecture, their fugitive form shifting in and out of solidity through myriad reflective and refractive properties.

Prisms are precision crafted tools for use in opthamology, microscopy, and astronomy. They are widely used in telescopes, cd players, binoculars, prescription lenses, and submarine periscopes. There is a prism inside my camera as I am photographing the prisms on my window sill. During several Apollo lunar missions, prisms were used to calculate the distance between the moon and Earth.

Prisms are powerful tools. Even so, just as we can hear incorrectly, with or without these instruments, we still see incorrectly. Something is mistaken for something else. In English, the words “in” and “out” describe focus. These are spatial words. The photographs in Space Craft activate visual adjusments and sensations due to the high contrast between what is in and out of focus.

A prism is not space but it can appear to contain space and be used to create space. A wedge, a brick, a keystone, a tile, these are all prisms. The glass and acrylic prisms in the photographs are named not for their materials or use, but for their geometry. The word prism comes from the Greek, prisma “a geometrical prism, trilateral column” (Euclid) “something sawed (as a block of wood), sawdust,” from prizein, priein “to saw”. Architecture is made up of and from prisms.

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Space Craft
Archival pigment print
40 x 26.5 inches
101.6 x 67.31 cm
Framed: 41 x 27.5 x 2 inches
104.14 x 69.85 x 5.08 cm
Edition of 3
Signed and dated verso

*Variable sizes available upon request