The Temporal Hyperplane Photograph
To realize these photographs of familiar figurative themes, I have used the unfamiliar tool of a heavily hacked and altered flatbed scanner married to a vintage Nineteen Forties, 4x5 field camera. To understand how this FrankenCamera uniquely unleashes the time dimension normally frozen in a photograph, consider a common photograph as being a hyperplane of four dimensional space, with the resulting three dimension being captured at a single point in time. The scanner photograph offers an image, which, in addition to being inherently three dimensional, reveals the fourth dimension in a unique way. Each ‘exposure’ or ‘take’ occurs over a number of minutes– up to thirty minutes, or as little as one minute. The opposite ends of the image are captured at entirely different moments in time, not all at once as in a ‘typical’ photograph, thus the Temporal Hyperplane.
It is important to stress that these images were captured just as they now appear and have not been ‘photoshopped’ other than to adjust the levels for tonal value. Artifacts such as stripes and lines may seem like errors in the print but are in fact characteristics of an image made with a very heavily modified scanner.
—Beau Daignault