I recently came back from Chapel-Hill, NC where I attended Cosmic Rays Experimental Film Fest. It was an amazing time getting inspired by filmmakers, including several other women who take working with celluloid film and developing cameraless mixed-media projects seriously. Beyond inspired, I returned home and spent time returning to the textbook Experimental Film & Photochemical Practices. This publication is pretty academic in its style/approach but has radically helped me put into context the sigificance of my body of work in terms of Analog Projection Art. Over the course of this spring I have been making connections with more and more (as I would call it) “film-film” filmakers. Ie: Crazy individuals who make the odd desicion to work with celluloid film- either through shooting & handprocessing, camera-less imagemaking, or direct animation. It is exciting to understand how this Multi-Image Slideshow work fits into an expanded cinema world (even if the term “expanded cinema” is painstakingly unwelcoming towards outsiders. Nontheless- the text has both helped me situate myself in artitic space and actually pinpoint the deeply embedded reasons I have made the wacky choice to work in this non-digital/embodied medium. The reasons for that are endless - some of which I;ve been able to capture in my project statement. However, another area of inspiration (both from the book and the film fest friends) are thinking of ways to push this particular project. One conversation is around the durational work being installed vs. being performed live. I am still working that bit out. Secondly (from inspiration with the book) I have been curious of how to storytell around the implied meaning of the work: the idea that our psyche is constantly processing sights, sounds, memories, images, impressions, and experiences to bring to the surface our subconscious reality. For that reason I stumbled on this thought of housing the enitre quad-image unit inside of a silouetted head. I am just beginning to play with the form.  Should it be illustrative (as shown) or coldly-iconic (like a bald man-head noun project icon)? Should it be an element viewers can engage with (via transparent projection objects over a masked overhead projector) or should it remain as still image that stays put? I am not sure at this point but I am excited by what I am seeing and encouraged as to how this both enables better storytelling and situates the work in-line with my future “analog projection illustration” series (which I started developing Summer 2025 at my Elf School Residency).

Very excited to share that my project proposal to show 35mm Multi-Media Slideshow has been accepted for a landmark annual “Re-Happening” event with BMC (outside of Asheville, NC). In addition to be accepted out of hundreds of applicants I’ve also been featured as one of the 6 artists on their official Press Release. As a Bauhaus-trained design student I’ve held Black Mountain College in my imaginative memory for a long-time. It was the 1970’s school that helped launch interdisciplanary masters into the stratosphere... such as Buckminister Fuller (creator of the geodesic dome), John Cage (avant-garde composer/performer), Annie & Joseph Albers (fiber design pioneer & color theorist extrodinaire), Merce Cunningham (groundbreaking choreographer), Ray Johnson (handprocessed graphic artist and Mail-Art provacatuer), and Robert Rauschenberg (symbolic-mashup mixed media printmaker). To be on the grounds sharing my work where these groundbreaking artists once collaborated is a massive thrill. It is external affirmation that this work radically contributes something to our hyperspeed image-filled landscape. BMC is all about championing experimentation, interdisciplanary thinking, and practices that are working non-heirarchically to push the boundaries of art as we know it. I leave mid-April for the event and will be showcased with a handfull of other artists of all disciplines on the original college campus at Lake Eden, April 25th. 

After a over year of work I have finally completed my analog installation work 35mm Multi-Image Slideshow! I am pumped about getting this sucker out into the 🌏. Unlike the WIP documentation shown at the top of this webpage... all four carousels are now chock full. 360 slides. 240 handmade. 80 handpicked from my deceased grandfathers’ 8K archive. 

Here you can see a still from the studio timelapse of putting final touches on the project. The main focus here was checking for technical issues with each slide. At this phase I am looking for any focus incongruence, remounting any rouge layers, covering exposed ink, and making sure all the images are right side up. 

In my next session I'll be prepping the work for installation and performance by testing lamp life and curating individual carousel order. Upon installation all slides will be shown in random order as time goes on, because each self-timer works at slightly different speeds. It is the beauty of analog baby! Embrace lo-fi. 

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