Camera obscura is Latin for “dark chamber” and predates the invention of

photography by a few hundred years. It is a dark room or box with a tiny

opening on one end. Light moves through this opening, and an image is

projected onto wherever light particles might land.

These objects in a dark chamber are carefully staged so the arrangements

appear to be found as they were left. Items are placed in a weak attempt to

get something out of the way but not to communicate. The relationship

between objects is purposely vague; connections are determined by

subject, distance, and light.

A found notepad provides the aged paper for short communications

that are typed with an old typewriter. The phrases come from messages

written on the back of old postcards. These words act as an AI text prompt

for an image that only has a tangential connection. The ambiguity creates a

comfortable tension by prompting more questions than answers.

The impressions made by the map pins that hold the notepad paper

provide another level of communication and history, as the pattern of holes

changes over time.