Solar Diaries

This work captures a full day, 24 hours, not as an image, but as a presence. The surface doesn’t represent; it remembers. Direct sunlight leaves strong, defined marks, while ambient and indirect light accumulate slowly as soft, fading gradients. What emerges is a visual rhythm, bursts of intensity punctuating long, quiet transitions.

Though it doesn’t resemble a traditional camera, the machine I’ve built performs the same fundamental act: it records light onto a sensitive surface over time. But it abandons the lens and rejects representational clarity. Instead, it embraces process, materiality, and chance. Each fabric becomes a record, not of scenes, but of shifting conditions: light, weather, time. -place-

In this sense, the fabric behaves like memory itself, fragile, uneven, shaped as much by what is present as by what is absent. My work challenges photography’s role as a visual document, proposing instead a poetic visualization.