AMY THEISS GIESE
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    • Migration of Silver
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Concealed at first at last i appear
2009-ongoing

 The large-scale, unique, silver gelatin skiagrams (Greek for "shadows written") that I make are a direct recording of the shadow patterns in a room at night onto traditional black and white darkroom paper. They are created without a camera or an aperture. The project is an exploration of how the inherent properties of photo paper capture and hold elements of a specific time, place, and moment.  They are an act of translation, which I expand in some instances by transposing the image into a sound composition. The work also is about confounding the expectations of the viewer – that photographs are “of” something recognizable, that what we perceive is fact.  Ultimately, the skiagrams are a play between light and dark, tangible and abstract, a physical object and the ephemerality of a moment. 

I am always looking for new opportunities to create and exhibit these works.
click on images to see expanded portfolios from this ongoing project
Place: 10011 Date: 2009
Place: 06106 Date: 2011
Place: 02215 Date: 2011
Place: 01247 Date: 2017
Place: 02134 Date: 2018
Place: 13827 Date: 2019
Place: 02840 Date: 2020
Place: 01247 Date: 2020
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  • About
  • Projects
    • Concealed at First
    • My Head is Too Heavy
    • Volume's Surface
    • Absence of Light
    • Eidolon + Shadows
    • Infra Certum
    • Dissolve the World
    • Two Views
    • Migration of Silver
    • Dear Diary
    • Full of Sound and Fury
    • Harvey/Holzer
    • Transition States
    • Mozartova White
    • Ipseity Series