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EUQINOM projects
January 4 - February 25, 2017Info
1599 Tennessee Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Google Map »Reception
January 6, 2017 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
scott b. davis palo verde, chocolate mountains, california, 2016 unique paper negatives platinum prints, diptych 20 x 32 inches (each 20 x 16 inches)
EUQINOMprojects is pleased to present starlight, a collection of photographic works by scott b. davis that explore the perceptual experience of light and space in the Sonoran desert of California, Arizona and Mexico. Over the last 15 years, the artist has revisited this landscape to explore the limits of photographic sensitivity and human perception. Working in the spirit of William Henry Fox Talbot and Sir John Herschel, the photographs are made using time-consuming, experimental 19th century formulas, abandoning the precision and control often expected from photography and making new visual discoveries along the way. The resulting images are playful, inexact, and unpredictable. They invite the simple act of slow observation, similar to the experience of letting one’s eyes adjust in the blinding light of the desert, or the immense darkness of its nights. starlight contains photographs from three bodies of work: black sea, tracings of light, and ocotillo, ocotillo, each revealing different nuances and subtleties in the desert landscape. Taken as a whole, the works build on a deep interest in experimenting with the rich tradition of platinum/palladium printing, including the practice of displaying negatives as finished works of art.