Total Spiral
Print Edition Commissioned by MOCA Tucson
Total Spiral is a double exposure self-portrait on film capturing an intimate performance of the April 2024 northern hemisphere total eclipse projected on the body as a small spiral. The second image is the site of the dry, bare form of Robert Smithsons’ Spiral Jetty in drought in that same season of 2024. The image creates a record of fleeting conditions at different perceptible timescales, superimposing these human-scale interventions onto geologic and cosmologic phenomena.
Total Spiral is part of an ongoing series of photographs that function as imaginary film stills; inspired in mood by the slow, existential qualities of the films of soviet new wave cinema, these images suggest barely perceptible movements while describing metaphysical conditions.