Sharon Harper (Cambridge, MA), Moon Studies and Star Scratches, No. 9, June 4 – 30, 2005, Clearmont, Wyoming, 15, 30, 20, 8, 5, 1, 5, 2, 1 minute exposures; 15, 8, 10, 14 second exposures, Digital C-print from 4x5 transparency, 50 x 40 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Roepke, Cologne
Sharon Harper (Cambridge, MA), Moon Studies and Star Scratches, No. 6, June - September 2004, Saratoga Springs, New York; Middlesex, Vermont; Johnson, Vermont; Eden Mills, Vermont; Greensboro, North Carolina, Digital C-print from 8x10 transparency, 50 x 40 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Roepke, Cologne
Sharon Harper (Cambridge, MA), Moon Studies and Star Scratches, No. 10, June 5 – 9, 2005, Clearmont, Wyoming, 5, 10 minute exposures; 2, 4.5 hour exposures, Digital C-print from 4x5 transparency, 50 x 40 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Roepke, Cologne
Artist Statement
The images within this body of work, "Moon Studies and Star Scratches," are not available to the eye until they are fixed on some photographic material. Traditional realms of the sublime—vast night skies here—are examined and transformed within the camera. What's left behind on the film suggests traces from experience.
The camera itself as a mode of technology mediates our interaction with the natural world. It also generates new perceptual possibilities for re-interpreting experience of the sublime. These works are an attempt to record a realm we can hardly fathom within a framework of time we can readily understand.
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