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 statue (from my grandfathers slide travel 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 use time to experiment more on layering multiple projectors. This means expanding the kit I bring and making what I consider a kind of “collaged projection illustration” by using multiple projectors to create one image.

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 kind of 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. Fun fact: Masks were also used in the industry to build large panorama’s (via soft fades on overlapping images) and also to generate ANIMATION- Who would have thunk it!?

To make this first image I am working in a small room (~10’x10’) so things got creative with the stands and luckily I have a massive arsenal of different lenses. Curious to see if my studio space in the mountains will give me any more room to run around. Excited for the opportunity to work around other artists and get inspiration/feedback.

I could see an application of this medium-- if photographed correctly-- to be used almost as an editorial illustration. That excites me- I am always thinking about things in terms of design I guess.  

“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, 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).