Work and projects by Gary Fisher

Gary Fisher

Photography

Selected Work

Temporal Shift Series 2019 - Present

In 2019 I began a new series of time sequences of cloud phenomena. The series deals with cloud phenomena recorded photographically at two instants of time. The time interval might be seconds to minutes. My criterion as to when to record the first and second photographs is based on how the clouds emotionally appear to me as they evolve.

There is purposeful ambiguity as to which image in the pair occurs first. The time interval between images is also ambiguous. For me these sequences are metaphors for temporality and moment-to-moment awareness.

The foundation for this work stemmed from photographic cloud sequences I made in the 1970's and 1990's. The images in this Temporal Shift Series were made in Southern California, the Sierra and the Mohave desert. The scale of these images is intimate, forcing the viewer to engage with them from a close perspective.

Each of the photographs is an original, one-off, in-camera dye diffusion print made with an Instax camera. Being original photographs enhances the temporality of the work.

Since 2019 I have recorded over 150 "Temporal Shift" pairs.