I’ve met my people, and they come in the form of a bunch of nerds in a basement. On Feb 17th I’ll be hosting my third ever Slide Party, this time at the Cape Fear Makers Guild. All supplies will be provided and a $15 entry goes to support the Makers guild.

In preparation for my time at an art residency in Western Carolina I have started to ground back into the 35mm slide making after a long hiatus. Some shown here: include a bear graph🐻📊 and a gorgeous Venetian palace sphinx (from my grandfathers archive). 

I have used this time to work out what production kit I‘ll bring to the residency. While I am interested to continue making my 320+ library for the larger project and I also want to experiment more with layering multiple projectors. This means expanding the kit I bring and  using multiple projectors to create a kind of “collaged projection illustration”.  

My first “Projection Illustration” is called “Conquerer” with the central image: a bronze horseman raising a flag. That slide is masked and surrounded by a red starburst plus four images of erupting💨gysers. Slighty humourous but mostly just emotive- it uses 5 projectors and one overhead. 

The overhead employs a cutout shadow puppet technique. All the slide images have been masked. Masking Slides were a technique (and product) used in the 1980’s muti-image industry trade. Thankyou Ebay catalogs! Here- I am using masks to allow multiple profections to overlay and also to generate shapes.

While the projections are ephemeral- if photographed correctly I could see them being used in editorial illustration. That excites me- I am always thinking about things in terms of design and printed matter.

“Projection Jam” using three 35mm slide projectors & four OHP's. Co-hosted with filmmakers Cheyanne Hiott & August Schaller. Explored various effects including operating shadow puppetry, moire patterns, static masks, layering slide with liquid light and various materials (ie: iridescent pinwheel, smoke, cutouts, gel) also explored long throw projection and how overheads + slide projectors layer with various brightnesses. We set-up and invited folks to play around with materials. The event also included live editing & digital projection from local filmmaker Felix Carlson.  

Interactive multi-plane layered projection installation at Jengos Playhouse. Setup included one Kodak Ektagraphic slide projector with one masked overhead slide projector (OHP) that is manually adjusted in real-time. Invited folks to draw pictures inspired by the film screening via dry erase markers on transparent templates I created.  

I am currently building a multi-image slide show utilizing 4x Kodak Ektagraphic Projectors on auto-loop. The final installation will bring together 320x handmade slides and I am 30% to my end goal.

In the meantime however, I have ±80 solid slides to play with and have been invited to show part of the in-progress work at a local indie cinema. As a result I started working to make an abridged version of the slideshow that can be performed solo and in-person. What that looks like at the moment is layering one slide projector with one masked overhead slide projector (OHP) that I can manually adjust in real-time (with a liquid light layer and a static object shadow layer).

I am currently building a multi-image slide show utilizing 4x Kodak Ektagraphic Projectors on auto-loop.

The final installation combines the unexpected results of analog machines with simple materials to display a 3’ x 5’ window of 35mm handmade slides crafted through my own variety of mixed media methods with roscolux gels & collaged film stock

This 320x slide library will also include a small handfull of 35mm film selects from my deceased grandfathers travel archive as well as guest artists’ slides created at quarterly at “Slide Parties”.

Bringing people together in real-time and real-space, the work exists to turn backs to digital so we can turn our bodies towards eachother. I am currently, seeking opporunities to socialize the work and develop it further with collaborative live-performance elements (ie: sound, liquid light, movement/dance, shadow puppet).