FADING LIGHT (2022 - 2023)

For three months in the summer of 2022, I photographed the light that appeared above my kitchen table every evening at sunset.

My marriage was ending. My then-husband and I would sit at our table beneath this fading sunlight and painfully confront our dissolving relationship. After we separated, I continued to photograph this light. With each passing day, the sun and earth shifted position in the sky and this light grew dimmer until one day it was gone.

While making these pictures, I experienced the time-based nature of photography — not only how time needs to pass for a photograph to be made, but how time’s passing changes the meaning of photographs, thus altering our relationship to them.

I installed these photographs of light with red LED lights behind them, creating the effect of an internal glow that gradually dims as the batteries drain. A multichannel video projection shows overlapping videos of this same evening light fading and reemerging, next to a silent video of my then-husband and I holding hands after we’d had an argument. Illuminated by the ever-changing rhythms of light, the room becomes a somatic, meditative space to embody grief and time’s passing.

Archival inkjet prints, LED lights, multichannel video projection

School of the Art Institute of Chicago Galleries, 2023