Lake Horizon

Lake Horizon
Using exposure times ranging from fifteen to sixty minutes, these photographs compress duration into singular images that capture something beyond what the eye can perceive in any single moment. The long exposures smooth the water into mirror-like stillness and blur the movement of clouds into soft, painterly gradients, creating scenes of tranquility.

Lake Horizon
Using exposure times ranging from fifteen to sixty minutes, these photographs compress duration into singular images that capture something beyond what the eye can perceive in any single moment. The long exposures smooth the water into mirror-like stillness and blur the movement of clouds into soft, painterly gradients, creating scenes of tranquility.

Lake Horizon

Lake Horizon emerged from an artist residency at Tussen Takk, where extended observation of Lake Michigan became a meditation on time, light, and atmospheric transformation. For almost four weeks I setup my camera at the same spot, morning and afternoon, overlooking the water and observing the changes in the weather. Within the time there, the changes were profound. The snow on the shore has receded, then disappeared. As a result the landscape looked different day by day, sometimes different by the hour.

Using exposure times ranging from fifteen to sixty minutes, these photographs compress duration into singular images that capture something beyond what the eye can perceive in any single moment. The long exposures smooth the water into mirror-like stillness and blur the movement of clouds into soft, painterly gradients, creating scenes of tranquility.

While the images convey serenity and contemplation, they also document the lake's constant flux—the rapid shifts in weather, the changing quality of light at dawn and dusk, the subtle transformations of color across the sky.

Each photograph becomes a record of impermanence, holding within its frame the traces of wind, cloud movement, and the sun's journey across the horizon. The snowy shore in winter or the deepening blues of twilight remind us that this landscape is never static, even as the camera's patient gaze renders it seemingly eternal.