Retired snapshot, 2018

Now going on year 17, the Snapshots gallery is back online. This time it’s a bit different, as with the rest of the site, all work from before 2020 has been archived. It does kind of limit what I can put online location-wise, as I’ve only been out of Los Angeles a few times since COVID. It also means most of the photos were taken with my old iPhone SE and some of the grainy, weirder ones from early on—using my iPhone 6—have also been put to rest.

Nevertheless, I do really enjoy this project, if for no other reason it keeps me hunting for photos when otherwise I might ignore the world around me. I would imagine with the next update (which will include shots from my newly-upgraded iPhone 17) will be a bit more substantive, but I want to start filling out the galleries and getting a larger archive of work online.

One project I always loved was The Dissonance Polaroids, an abstracted instant film series I worked on from 2013-2015—three from the original batch can be seen above. I’ve returned to that with a refined conceptual approach and put the first results online to view. I am doing this new volume as four-image sets and will likely update the gallery when five new sets are complete.

on behalf of a ghost cover art

The first of a few sound-related projects I’ll be associated with this fall, the new ad lucem ‘single,’ on behalf of a ghost (two tracks, but each are over ten minutes long) we’re releasing ahead of a new full-length is out now. This is lengthy, spatial music that flows between textural patterns and gain stages.