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Statement

My work explores the tension between time and space. By “painting” a shadow in tape, I turn a moment in time into a physical object. The tape shadow is left behind, stuck in place, flopping over a curb or bending up a wall, as the actual shadow continues on its path. Some shadows are captured from people or objects that are only temporarily filling that space. They move on leaving their presence recorded. I fill in the shadow in real time, racing to capture its shape before it moves and distorts into an entirely new form.

The blue shadows created by the painters tape are reminiscent of the shadows in Monet’s paintings of haystacks. Whereas Monet painted idealized scenes of agrarian life in expensive oils, my shadows are cast by urban ephemera and captured in an everyday material. The shadows and their sources are left as a form of temporary public art.