Moira McDonald: Locomotion of Light & Time @ Chung24 Gallery

Time lets the light in to mark its own shape on the silver coated papers that I placed into the landscape.

These cameraless photographs are extended & direct exposures of days to months within the elements.

Uniquely marked by timed experiences together, each composition is made by inviting and then capturing the locomotion of their own slow moving image. These are photographs of long deep breaths, of atmospheric shifts, of tropospheric drifts. Pictures of foggy summer mornings, autumnal afternoons, the cold short days of winter & everything in between; though no details would hold beyond the light that had been seen.

Moira McDonald is an Australian-American photographic artist working, living & making in the San Francisco Bay Area. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography from California College of the Arts & her Master of Fine Art at San Jose State University. Utilizing a diverse & expanding dialect of analog photographic processes, Moira's pictures are unique marks of direct dialogs between the landscape and the photographic medium. Moira's photographs have been widely exhibited throughout the United States and abroad