Invited as resident artist by Chris Boïcos Fine Arts to the lovely island of Paxos in the Ionian sea, I lead a photography workshop where the participants used phones and cameras to take digital photographs. From prints of these they composed large format collaged and painted triptychs. The snapshots had given birth to enduring works of art - tangible reminders of having been in a real place at a certain time - Paxos in summer 2016. In a final shoot, participants were photographed double exposed against their finished works.
The Wunderkammer in Paris closes August first this year to re-open in Brussels. At the end of June the owner Alec de Lussanet invited me put on a final show. We agreed to exhibit the recently completed large format "The Flood Foretold" and the model I built. But for the rest, I would need to create a new series in one month. For sometime I had been thinking about how the transparent glass photographs could open the image via windows and doors onto other spaces and times. I set to work and the night before the exhibition had finished a new series of 15 "glass darklies", called, "Les Ailleurs". "The Elsewheres". The full series can be viewed in the Portfolios above.
