Artist Statement
The ocean is changing, repetitive, and stable. Waves crash steadily onto the beach as the horizon stretches limitlessly before us. This work is the first chapter of a series that examines our relationship with the natural world, our perception of infinity through the sea, and how vision is expressed photographically through composite photographs exhibited at monumental scale.
The ocean calls to me. These photographs are my response.
Process Statement
Over the past seven years, I made photographs that respond the ocean, recreating my connection to psychological space of the ocean. I pointed my camera at the waves, yet my photographs showed it inert, motionless in time, never revealing its alchemy, its mystery, its allure. It was this failure that prompted me to formulate a technical and artistic framework to mirror the transience of the sea and create order from the seemingly random, undulating, and interconnected structures of the surf.
Jonathan Lipkin is a visual artist whose work is a meditation on the infinite, time, and perception. His most recent series Translucence of Time is on view at 180 The Store in Tribeca, NYC
He holds degrees from Wesleyan University and the School of Visual Arts and maintains studios in New York City and East Hampton. His photographs have been exhibited and published internationally and are held in public and private collections. He is author of Photography Reborn (Abrams Books, 2004) and In the Realm of the Circuit (Prentice Hall, 2003). His award-winning monograph Livingston County (Conveyor Books, 2011) was selected for inclusion in the IndyBooks Library. He has lectured extensively on photography and digital media.
The Translucence of Time has been featured in designboom, Magaceen and an upcoming feature in LeTemps.ch. It has been exhibited at the Photo Speaks festival in Korea, a solo show the Kresge gallery at Ramapo college and is currently on view at 180 the Store.
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