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SOLAR DRAWINGS

Ongoing Project – Chromogenic photographic prints, various sizes

In my latest project I’m using film and a moving pinhole camera to draw with the sun. There is no viewfinder and no lens on my weather worn wooden camera and exposures are made through a pinhole pierced through a thin sheet of brass. Without a lens exposure times are considerably longer, allowing me more time to draw with the sun onto the camera’s film negatives. My camera is pointed at the sky, we see lens-like shapes in space, the sun as light source, as fire, as a point to circle. The symbol of the circle; eternity, continuity, a cycle. These Solar Drawings radiate and glow, continue and break up, they flare and overlap. Based out of New York City where the sky is often unseen or forgotten I travel on foot, by plane, in a van making these Solar Drawings throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East.

Duruma, Saudi Arabia, 2025

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Richmond, England, 2026

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Betsy Kenyon

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