Echotype #2
Blue Line. Boston.

Boston, Massachusetts. I’m standing in one spot in an underground transit station. As passengers scurry to and from the train, I’m repeatedly capturing still-images, shooting from the hip, handheld and at low exposure in a radius of 180?. After a short while, I have a ragbag of images that are not only sequential, but they also have the potential to form an image together as a whole.

The result is a multilayered panorama with an ever-changing border of jagged angles, set in motion like a shuffling deck of cards. Nearly 40 still-images are layered, skewed and aligned over, under, and from end to overlapping end. Using Photoshop’s imaging and animation tools, these multi-directional images had to be forced back into a single view of the station that sequences through each image every half second.

Much like my other work, this series of images explores the ideas of time, of motion, and human interaction. It delves into the loneliness found in a crowd of people. It seeks to understand the numen of modern conveniences in age-old places.

I call these moving images, Echotypes, in the spirit of early photography such as the Daguerreotype or Calotype. And, they are echoes in that they record the multiple reverberations of existence. There are several Echotypes in my Boston series. Every one is meant to loop continuously whether they are online or even displayed in a gallery setting through digital hardware. Much like one would silently observe and analyze a painting hanging on a wall, each Echotype can be viewed for as long as it takes to assimilate and appreciate the content.