Jetting (into the) Blue

5797 Washington Blvd Gallery, Culver City, CA, 2010

Origami jet planes constructed from digital photos, C-print on aluminum, mobile, digital prints

Jetting (into the) Blue is a series of works that uses photographs of the sky as image and object. The work is about air travel, yet rather than recording the ‘here’ and ‘there’ it documents the space between origin and destination – blue skies marked by jet exhaust. Photographs are used in various ways - folded into origami jet planes, placed on the wall in compositions, and mounted on aluminum. The origami jet planes installed in grid patterns imply the endless succession of flights crossing the continents. In Round and Round the photographs form an endless circle of gridded lines. Paper planes hang from a mobile, able to travel only in circles. Into the Blue is a highly saturated photograph that appeals to the adventurer spirit ‘into the wild blue yonder’. Embedded with sex appeal, it is of-the-moment, full of daring and bravado, slightly out of control and at the hand of fate. The lines of the exhaust draw us quickly in and forward, much like the impulse itself. Over the Rainbow generates a yearning and nostalgia for a place other than where we are. All the works in the series maintain an insistent emptiness that questions the meaning of an activity of created consumption with adverse environmental impact and a restless need to be someplace else.