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OUTDOOR DRAWINGS

SOLAR DRAWINGS

SOLAR DRAWINGS

The camera is pointed at the sky only. Betsy Kenyon uses both her body and a weather-worn analog pinhole camera to make drawings with the sun. The sun as light source, as the element of fire, as a point to circle, creating lens-like shapes in space. The circle; eternity, continuity, a course of time, a cycle. Based out of NYC where the sky is often unseen or forgotten she travels on foot, by plane, in a van making these solar drawings throughout the United States. They radiate and glow, continue and break up, they flare and overlap, revealing seasonal changes and fluctuating weather with the spectrum of color timely and unique to each momentary exposure.

4 DIRECTIONS

In this work the concept of exposure to nature is visualized quite literally, also that of immersion. Traveling to the 4 cardinal points of the contiguous United States, these images were formed by casting hand-coated Sumi ink cliché verre “negatives” into bodies of water, their natural forces becoming the guiding hand and their own formal language. Traveling with these materials in a van, markings on coated mylar rendered each unique image as a product of the elements; water, earth, wind and sunlight. Truly a collaboration with nature, these images record connection; place and time, chance and pattern.

4 DIRECTIONS

Process

DAILY DRAWINGS

DAILY DRAWING

Process

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