Objects In A Dark Chamber
Camera obscura is Latin for “dark chamber” and predates the invention of photography by a few hundred years. It is a dark room or box with a tiny opening on one end. Light moves through this opening, and an image is projected onto wherever light particles might land.
These objects in a dark chamber are carefully staged so the arrangements appear to be found as they were left. Items are placed in a weak attempt to get something out of the way but not to communicate. The relationship between objects is purposely vague; connections are determined by subject, distance, and light.
A found notepad provides the aged paper for short communications that are typed with an old typewriter. The phrases come from messages written on the back of old postcards. These words act as an AI text prompt for an image that only has a tangential connection. The ambiguity creates a comfortable tension by prompting more questions that need to be ignored.
The impressions made by the map pins that hold the notepad paper provide another level of communication and history, as the pattern of holes changes over time.