differing multiples

When does multiplicity result in a new whole? When do repeated fragments construct something greater than the parts? Utilizing cameras which have multiple lenses, (4 or 8) I have been “fragmenting” buildings, landscapes, details of places to construct two dimensional layered collages of materials and textures. This three dimensional collage being reinterpreted into a photograph which is then multiplied through 4 lenses is an interesting framing and translation of space.

I am interested in documenting the same place through different types of camera. Each camera frames the image in a different way. The Holga creates a sequential, double exposed strip, with only a beginning and an end, no separated parts. the Lomo divided the picture plane into four quadrants, which are juxtaposed within the confines of a 4x6 print. The Holga exhibits continuity of relationships and intersection; the Lomo portrays separate parts divided into non intersecting, non interacting wholes. Yet, at times, when this matrix is visually broken, the play of the space of four quadrants becomes an alternate way of studying intersections and boundaries.