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Locked Down Looking Up
Locked Down Looking Up started as a series of images made over time from a fixed point—outside my front door—during the San Francisco Bay Area’s lockdown to slow the spread of Covid-19. Multiple shots were combined to show the flight trails of birds, insects, and bats. While most everything in my life has come to a standstill, up in the air, there was still a lot going on. Later, when I started to be able to move around a little more, I began to explore other locations.
To be clear: I don't claim to have invented this technique. I'm not even the only artist doing it with birds. This is my exploraton of a process—photo stacking or composite imaging to record flight trails—that's been around for a long time, going all the way back to Edweard Muybridge before the turn of the last century, and there are other artists (who also didn't invent it) making work of this kind.
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