About the Counterpoint series: A collaboration between Lisa Levine and Peter Tonningsen
Drawing inspiration from the musical notion in which two or more voices that move independently and coalesce to create a more harmonious and elaborate music, Counterpoint is a photo-based project pushing the limitations of a singlular vision towards a more fluid and complex perspective by interweaving multiple moments in time into a singular image. This project is essentially a visual conversation intended to redefine the photographic document while creating a novel approach to defining landscape.
Beginning with a single roll of film, one artist photographs various scenes throughout a specific landscape. The film is then rewound and re-exposed multiple times, eventually creating a surprising and complexly layered document of that place. The multiple exposed films are scanned in sections of consecutive frames and digitally reworked to accentuate selected formal and contextual components. This unique synthesis between digital and analog technologies relies on the distinctive characteristics and possibilities of each, yet also unites them into an aesthetically imaginative and innovative form.
Opposing the singularity and clarity of conventional direct photographic representation, and embracing the serendipitous wonder of this atypical process, the resulting photographs are visually rich and highly complex compositions that describe a creative interchange composed of fragments of information, time, and space. Such interpretive photographs are no longer picture perfect portals into reality, but now depict a multidimensional perspective that expands our notions of the photographic instant and reorders the appearance of photographic space. This approach allows a blending of views consistent with musical counterpoint.
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