"The Wall As it Exists" is a recreation of a wall of family photographs that sits inside my grandparent's home in Litchfield, Maine. The images in this project are gelatin silver prints that were created using an iPhone screen as the negative. Through the inverting of the display screen and the help of my grandmother on Facetime, I recorded our interaction onto light-sensitive paper.
For each exposure, I had my grandmother hold her phone camera in front of every photograph on the wall in her home for 5 seconds so that they were on my phone screen. In each print, her movements during those 5-second exposures are what determined the clarity of the image. In that sense, 'The Wall" is a collaborative project between my grandmother and I-- she in Maine, and at that point, me in Chicago.
