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Looking for the corner piece

Looking for the corner piece.
2012.
520 x 415mm.
Pigment ink on paper.
In Looking for the corner piece, the camera has been left recording continuously for two days to reexamine a symbolic act. During the exposure, when it was dark, a box of 45 matches has been sequentially burnt in the attempt to keep an unsolved puzzle illuminated. But when all the moments in time appear blended together in the final image, the light from the individual matches barely registers. The only evidence of the act is a ghostly glow and the remnants of the discarded matches.

Filename: Looking for the corner piece.jpg
Copyright: Copyright © 2012 by Stefan Roberts
Image Size: 798x1000 / 266.0KB; 4x5 camera Long exposure Matches New Zealand black and white burnt burnt matches corner piece fine art illuminated jigsaw long duration passage of time puzzle smoke still life
Contained in galleries: Out of the Fog

Looking for the corner piece.<br />
2012.<br />
520 x 415mm.<br />
Pigment ink on paper.<br />
In Looking for the corner piece, the camera has been left recording continuously for two days to reexamine a symbolic act. During the exposure, when it was dark, a box of 45 matches has been sequentially burnt in the attempt to keep an unsolved puzzle illuminated. But when all the moments in time appear blended together in the final image, the light from the individual matches barely registers. The only evidence of the act is a ghostly glow and the remnants of the discarded matches.