Photographer Creates Mesmerizing Flight Trails of Winged Creatures as a Meditation on Time 对时间的沉思
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California-based photographer Doris Mitsch captures otherworldly images that question the notions of time, space, and our own linear reality. In her recent series titled Locked Down Looking Up, the artist turned to the sky for inspiration and found it in the flight patterns of traveling flocks of birds. Her composite photos combine images of those intricate flight trails and showcase the elaborately choreographed dance of interwoven paths that exist right above our heads.
加州摄影师多丽丝·米奇拍摄了一些超凡脱俗的图像,这些图像质疑了时间、空间和我们自己线性现实的概念。在她最近的系列作品《封锁中仰望》中,这位艺术家转向天空寻找灵感,并在成群结队的鸟儿的飞行模式中找到了它。她的合成照片结合了这些复杂飞行轨迹的图像,并展示了就在我们头顶上存在的错综复杂的编舞舞蹈的交织路径。
“The series began as a project about finding beauty in the constraints of the pandemic lockdown,” Mitsch tells My Modern Met, “while we on the ground were locked down, up in the air, there was still a lot going on. But it was in the works for a long time before that.”
米奇告诉《我的现代美术馆》:“这个系列最初是关于在大流行封锁的限制中寻找美的项目,”“当我们在地面上被封锁时,天空中仍然有很多事情在进行。但在那之前很长一段时间它就已经在进行中了。”
From her home in the San Francisco Bay Area and looking out at a tree-covered ridge across a small canyon, Mitsch has spent years experimenting with time-lapse videos and composite photos. One of her first photography classes in college involved her learning alternative methods of capturing images. She loved “seeing how photographers can mess with space and time” using lensless methods like cyanotypes, long exposures with pinholes, multiple exposures, and more.
米奇在旧金山湾区的家中,眺望着对面小峡谷上覆盖着树木的山脊,她花了多年时间尝试拍摄延时视频和合成照片。她在大学的第一堂摄影课上就学习了捕捉图像的替代方法。她喜欢“看到摄影师如何使用无镜头的方法,如蓝晒法、针孔长时间曝光、多重曝光等手段来搅弄空间和时间”。
Over the years, Mitsch’s subjects have ranged from the changing seasons and weather patterns to the paths of the Moon and stars, the movement of airplanes, and the actions of various animals. However, 2020’s lockdown caused the artist to shift her attention and refocus on how creatures inhabit the particular landscape surrounding her home.
多年来,米奇的拍摄对象从变化的季节和天气模式,到月亮和星星的轨迹,飞机的运动,以及各种动物的行为等等。然而,2020年的封锁使这位艺术家转移了注意力,重新聚焦于生物是如何栖息在她家周围特定景观中的。
“That’s one way my work is different from some other motion study photographs, and it’s another way the series continues to evolve now that I can move around more and capture sequences in different places,” she shares. “The vultures riding thermals in the Moab desert, the bats hunting mosquitos over my garden, and the seagulls that wheel above the shore aren’t just drawing abstract sketches onto the air, they are also in a dance with the land.”
“这是我的作品与其他一些运动研究摄影不同的一个方式,也是这个系列继续演变的另一个方式,现在我可以四处移动,捕捉不同地点的序列,”她分享道。“在莫阿布沙漠中乘热流飞翔的秃鹫、在我的花园上空捕蚊的蝙蝠,以及在海岸上空盘旋的海鸥,它们不仅仅是在空中绘制抽象的草图,它们还与大地共舞。”
Mitsch’s images capture the mesmerizing trails of various airborne creatures—birds, bats, and even insects—as they swirl and flit far above the Earth. Their flight patterns, when combined in these composite photos, create abstract forms and linear shapes so compelling that they seem as if they were carefully composed by the winged creatures themselves.
米奇的图片捕捉了各种空中生物——鸟类、蝙蝠甚至昆虫——它们在地球上空盘旋和飞舞时形成的迷人轨迹。当这些轨迹在复合照片中结合时,它们创造了引人入胜的抽象形态和线性图形,看起来就像是这些有翼生物自己精心构图一样。
Mitsch’s exposures vary in the time they take to capture and the number of birds or other creatures in any given image. For example, one composite photo titled Lockdown Vulture (Signature) shows the path of just one vulture as it makes circles in the air. It was captured over the course of a minute. The total number of images she combines can also vary, ranging anywhere from 500 to 5,000.
米奇的曝光时间在捕捉所需的时间和任何给定图像中的鸟类或其他生物的数量上有所不同。例如,一张名为《封锁期间的秃鹫(签名)》的复合照片显示了一只秃鹫在空中盘旋的路径。这张照片是在一分钟内拍摄的。她结合的图像总数也有所不同,范围从500到5000不等。
“I love finding ways to photograph familiar things to reveal qualities we can’t see any other way, compressing distance or time to make an image that might take a minute or two to understand,” Mitsch says. “Physicists now say that there’s no such thing as linear time, at least not outside of human perception. Try as I might, I can’t get my head around that, but it’s interesting to think about...when I’m trying to make pictures of time in space, or space in time. If linear time really is an illusion, then maybe these photos are what flight actually looks like.”
“我喜欢找到拍摄熟悉事物的方法,以揭示我们无法以其他方式看到的品质,压缩距离或时间来制作一张可能需要一两分钟才能理解的图像,”米奇说。“物理学家现在说,至少在人类感知之外,没有所谓的线性时间。尽管我努力,我还是无法理解这一点,但这是一个有趣的想法......当我试图制作时间在空间中,或空间在时间中的图片时。如果线性时间真的是一种幻觉,那么也许这些照片就是飞行的真实样子。”
Scroll down to see more of Mitsch’s incredible composite photos from her series Locked Down Looking Up. Her work is also on view through September 12, 2022, at the Lafayette City Center in Boston as part of the Griffin Museum of Photography’s exhibition, Vantage Point: The View From Here.
向下滚动查看米奇从她的系列《封锁期间的上空》中更多令人难以置信的复合照片。她的作品也将在2022年9月12日之前,在波士顿的拉斐特市中心作为格里芬摄影博物馆展览《优势点:从这里看》的一部分展出。
Photographer Doris Mitsch captures the mesmerizing flight trails of birds and other creatures in her series Locked Down Looking Up.
摄影师Doris Mitsch在她的系列作品《封锁中抬头望》中捕捉了鸟类和其他生物迷人的飞行轨迹。
The series is made up of composite photos that combine anywhere from 500 to 5,000 images.
该系列作品由合成照片组成,每张照片结合了从500到5000张图像。
She started the series during the pandemic lockdown in 2020 when everyone was forced to stay home.
她在2020年疫情封锁期间开始了这个系列,当时每个人都被迫呆在家里。
“While we on the ground were locked down, up in the air, there was still a lot going on,” Mitsch tells My Modern Met.
“当我们在地面上被封锁时,空中仍然有很多事情在进行,”米奇告诉《我的现代美术馆》。
Locked Down Looking Up features photos of everything from birds to insects to bats.
《封锁中抬头望》特辑包括从鸟类到昆虫再到蝙蝠的各种照片。
