Caleb Charland

This Labor Day I spent the weekend in Van Buren, Maine making another alternative battery image. Thanks to Jay LaJoie from LaJoie Growers Inc, for allowing me to make use of his land and crop.

Field before install

Digging up the potatoes, wiring them up and burying them again

The set up before night fall

A hail storm provided a nice short break from the work

Recent work has involved grabbing really pixelated images of deep space from the web, chemically altering them as prints then ??????? rescanning high res. In the following detail you can see how the pixels from the source image dissolve into gaseous traces of ink.

Another piece here: