Log Light
Log Light
Inside the Woodpile
Bark Lens Light
In Bark Light
In Broken Branch Light
In Fallen Light
What Light Leaves Behind
As my practice became more thoughtful of and more centered on the more than human worlds in which my work had already been entangled, I wanted to find a way to more greatly acknowledge them. The more than human entities that had been previously my subjects, now are more consciously my collaborators. With that in mind and a very naïve notion, I want to know what these more than human entities were seeing? How did they see? What views were they taking in? What pictures would they make?
Without an intermediary device (camera) that might skew the view, I choose to work directly, using paper with light sensitive minerals embedded into it without development only stabilization. The minerals themselves an added element to the collaborative nature of the process.
Situating
the paper within, among, under and upon various surfaces in the forested
environment in which my practice operates, they are left for an unpredeterminate
time.
A picture is formed, not a human type conventional formally realistic image but one rendered as an abstraction. The picture (the paper coated in light sensitive minerals) contained (for photographs are containers) within it a record of the interactions of light, time, heat, energy, and atmosphere. In other words, it registers existence.
Made visible are the interactions between sunlight streaming through the forest’s leafy apertures and the elemental minerals embedded in the photographic material. The forest light activates the molecules to form a record of its existence in a similar way that that the light aids in the decomposition and regeneration of the forest.
Each photographic object constructed in such a way reveals exactly what the more than human sees.
Bio
Bruce
S Dunbar explores the intersection of photography, materiality, and perception.
Working across lens-based, cameraless, experimental and sustainable processes,
his practice investigates the traces left by light, time, and transformation.
Each work examines the subtle forces that shape how we see, offering a
meditative engagement with presence, absence, and memory.
Dunbar
has exhibited extensively in the United States, including at the Katonah Museum
of Art, Lockwood-Matthews Mansion Museum and Hammond Museum. He has been
recognized for his contributions to contemporary photographic practice both as
a creator and educator.
Based
in the Lower Hudson Valley, Dunbar holds an M.F.A. from Lesley University, an
M.A. from New York University, and a B.S. from Boston University. He has taught
photography at Western Connecticut State University and Quinnipiac University,
mentoring emerging artists while continually expanding the boundaries of his
own work.
Bruce S Dunbar
@brucesdunbar
brucesdunbar.com
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