MORE SUN / MOON TRACINGS
Lunartic Moonlight Dinner, Grand Coulee, WA. August 5, 2009, 10pm – 2am (119 d 21 m 52s W, 47 d 35 m 25 s N)
Digital print, acrylic
24x55in
By moonlight, the movement of shadows is traced every 20 minutes in the desert of eastern Washington.
Shadow Locomotion: 128 Years After Muybridge, The Red Barn, Stanford University, Palo Alto, 2004
Digital print 11x84 in
…an hourly recording of shadows from 11am – 5pm, February 28, 2004 at the site of Eadweard Muybridge’s sequential “horses in motion” photographs, commissioned by Leland Stanford in 1877.
Mr. Yan’s Chair, 8:45am-4:45pm, Shenzhen, PRC, August 9, 2008, 18x28 in, digital print
Digital print
18x28in
Documentation of sun study with chair and string. Sun rays were traced and made visible using colored string every 1½ hours. Shenzhen Institute of Fine Arts, Shenzhen, PRC.
Work-in-progress Documentation, 2010 of plastic dogs on heliodon.
Installation view, Art Center Gallery, Calvin College, 2011
Two Dog Dial, 2010
Plastic, DVD, DVD player
Shadows cast by plastic canines are traced on a heliodon (a mechanical apparatus that simulates the sun) for each hour on the summer solstice, equinox and winter solstice. The shadow movement was then documented on video with voiceover announcing time and date. In the installation, the dogs watch themselves on video as their shadows grow and retreat through the day at each time of year.
Penguin, 2014
Shadows cast by a penguin are traced on a heliodon for each hour on the summer solstice, equinox and winter solstice.
Space Needle on the Long Walk, 2010
Photo by Jen Graves
Shadows from a Leggo souvenir of the Seattle Space Needle were traced at each stop on the third and last day of The Long Walk, an event organized by artist Susan Robb for 40 artists walking 40 miles from Seattle to Snoqualmie Falls, WA.
Another Light, 2006
Digital print 24x78 in
Hourly by sunlight and moonlight at Snoqualmie Pass, WA, 8:23am-4:23pm; 6:15pm-4:15am, February 11-12, 2006.
Left: my shadow by sunlight. Right: my shadow by moonlight.
Tilt, 2003
Digital print
18x40in
A shelf, a glass of water and a pencil describe and visualize the angle of declination of the sun at Solar Noon in Seattle on the Winter Solstice (top), the Equinox (middle) and the Summer Solstice (bottom).
Gnomon at the Roman Forum, December 13, 2003
14 Digital Prints
Each 8x10in
Every 30 minutes during the opening hours (9am-3:30pm) of the Roman Forum, Rome, Italy.
Moondial, Banks Lake, Washington, August 29, 2004
7 C prints
Each 8x11in
Hourly by moonlight from 10pm – 4am.
Quarantine Day 12: Equinox Chair, March 19, 2020
Digital print, 24 x 20”
This chair in my backyard became the “gnomon” (shadow caster by which time is indicated on a sundial); I traced the movement of shadows with chalk each hour on the Equinox during lockdown.