Journal Studies

Paralleling my optically-based projects is an interest in visiting historical cameras obscura, related sites, museum collections, etc. Seen here is a selection of journal drawings created on-site. Some of the drawings are simple representational views while others are studies of such details as optical and gearing mechanisms or measurements of the architecture settings. A visual, observational manner of studying these places, the collected drawings may end up as scaled plans of selected sites. Also included here are some collected objects and ephemera that I have used in exhibitions and publications.

These journals are from a variety of sources; in most cases each journal is associated with a trip somewhere. Some of these trips, to Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, and Eastern Maine, were with a folding Klepper kayak. Others of these journals are associated with particular bodies of work, sometimes probing at the borders between the journal as “document” and the journal as a form of fiction and other forms of narrative exploration. The journals are variously comprised of Polaroids and other photographs, drawings of various sorts and a range of collected miscellany.