Blue Of Distance
“The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost. Light at the blue end of the spectrum does not travel the whole distance from the sun to us. It disperses among the molecules of the air, it scatters in water…. For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those miles away at the horizon, but in the atmospheric distance between you and the mountains.” -Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide To Getting Lost
This series of images were taken during my time at Headlands Center for the Arts and Anderson Ranch Arts Center in the summer of 2012. Shot with original and obsolete Polaroid 669 film, whose chemical components gradually turn the film more blue after years of expiration.
Blue Of Distance
Marin Headlands
Original Polaroid print, 4.25" x 3.25" expired
Maroon Bells
Original Polaroid print, 3.25" x 4.25" expired
Marin Headlands army bunkers
Original Polaroid print, 4.25" x 3.25" expired - double exposure
Apen, Colorado
Original Polaroid print, 4.25" x 3.25" expired
Marin Headlands
Original Polaroid print, 4.25" x 3.25" expired
Headlands Center For The Arts
Original Polaroid print, 3.25" x 4.25" expired
Fort Barry Army Bunkers
Original Polaroid print, 4.25" x 3.25" expired
Fort Barry Army Bunkers
Original Polaroid print, 4.25" x 3.25" expired - double exposure
Aspen, Colorado
Original Polaroid print, 4.25" x 3.25" expired
Marin Headlands
Original Polaroid print, 4.25" x 3.25" expired
For Barry Bunkers
Original Polaroid print, 4.25" x 3.25" expired
Colorado Mountains
Original Polaroid print, 4.25" x 3.25" expired
Snowmass Village, Colorado
Original Polaroid print, 4.25" x 3.25" expired“The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost. Light at the blue end of the spectrum does not travel the whole distance from the sun to us. It disperses among the molecules of the air, it scatters in water…. For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those miles away at the horizon, but in the atmospheric distance between you and the mountains.” -Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide To Getting Lost
This series of images were taken during my time at Headlands Center for the Arts and Anderson Ranch Arts Center in the summer of 2012. Shot with original and obsolete Polaroid 669 film, whose chemical components gradually turn the film more blue after years of expiration.