To make the image titled Solar Plexus,Caleb Charland lay on back at his home in Maine for two hours with his camera resting on the pit of his stomach, shutter open, while mosquitos buzzed around him. Airplanes flew in and out of the frame, and when they appeared in his peripheral vision, Charland held his breath so they would create a straight line.
“I was amazed that the starlight registered the rise and fall of my chest!” he wrote via email. “I’d never seen that image before and now it exists!”
Solar Plexus is part of Charland’s latest body of work, “Redshift,” currently on view at Sasha Wolf Gallery in New York until June 4.
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Defined as the moment when light comes into contact with gravity, redshift is a theme found in many of Charland’s images, most of them photograms (made without a camera). It’s also a nod to the nostalgia Charland feels for the rapidly disappearing analog processes.
“So much of my practice occurs under the red light of the darkroom,” he added. “Once I thought of this show with that title, it just all clicked.”
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