Despite being sick on my March Ensemble day for the 2nd year in a row, I decided I wanted to sing. I just received the files for my friend’s new “wine glass organ” which turned out to be perfect for accompanying a voice not at full strength.
I wanted to add calm artwork and improvised something that looks like a window. Incidentally, the friend who made the organ specializes in window art, and I’m usually the one who builds instruments, so in that sense, too, the process ended up being “in reverse”.
- @johannes.vaughn

In reverse
Song + digital art
Southern Finland
03/14/24

“This prompt made me think about the indexical nature of photography, a medium that documents the traces of things via light. I wanted to create an image that is a trace of motion in reverse. What would that look like? Funny enough, I misplaced my memory card while I was trying to make this, so I had to use my phone instead. I’d originally planned to make a long exposure to show movement in reverse, but instead I made a digital collage of a burst of 11 photos shot in quick succession. I further pushed the piece by layering these images on top of each other unevenly in varying opacities. The result I think captures some of the disorientation of moving backwards through space (or time).”
- @eahopkinsphotography

Continuum
Photograph
Boston, Massachusetts
03/14/24