Christine Lebeck
Montegridolfo #2, Italy
The artist’s statement:
The series Nocturnes comes from the deep desire to document my life. I am interested in the idea of preserving as well as creating memories for myself. My pinhole camera is used as an apparatus of observation. I use it to record the passing of time for the duration of a single night. I open the shutter as I enter my bed at night and close the shutter when I wake the following morning compressing the intimate experience of an entire night’s sleep into one image. The result is the accumulation of the past, the present, and the passing of time preserved on a single sheet of film. I seek to capture more than just a single moment in my life but a collection of moments, layered on top of each other. For me, whether I was alone or with someone else, in my own personal space or in a hotel room, the spaces that I inhabit while deep in slumber become very intimate. These images represent all the information collected in the span of time while I was in another consciousness, creating a visual memory for myself of an event that I have no personal recollection of.
