Camera Perturba

Exhibition Location 1: Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA

Exhibition Period: September 2016 - May 2017

Exhibition Location 2: WSU Museum of Art, Pullman, WA

Exhibition Period: May-August 2017

Collaborator: David Drake

Camera Perturba is a work inspired by icons in the rural landscape. It is an abandoned 500-gallon steel tank, frequently seen in rural landscapes, which is transformed into a large-scale camera obscura that reflects the sky view in water at the bottom of the tank through a hole at the top of the tank. The inspiration for this comes from the darkness of the space seen through openings in these tanks.

The interior space of these iconic rural structures and objects reveals characteristics of the outside environment such as the sky each in its own distinctive way.