The Calendar Project

Archival inkjet prints

16 x 20 inches

2019-ongoing

This sequence of color photographs documents my personal Ansel Adams wall calendar over which I have manipulated shadows from my floral kitchen curtains. By applying the operational schema of making photographs in the wilderness, my apartment is that of a wild view to monitor across the daylight hours. The images of National Parks in the American West stand in precedence over the grid of dates filled with colorful notes of my own personal schedule. The shadows serve as idiosyncratic disruptions of the aesthetic grandiosity for which Adams  is renowned. My calendar becomes both document and stage onto which the space of inside/outside is compressed and dualities of temporality are in direct contact with each other within the frame, recalling the longing felt by viewers who lack access to these iconic landscapes. Despite its two-dimensionality, each print offers a variety of readings:

as an everyday object, a record, a landscape, a monograph, a conversation, a shadow, a history, a present.