This series emerged from a daily practice in which I worked in the same Parisian interior, focusing on moments of light and daily life inside my apartment.

I was exposing 16mm film without a camera to the light of the apartment as a way to record the
shifting light in different rooms, and as a means of translating space to time.

Working concurrently in video, fast-forwarding and rewinding the video as I imported the images into the computer, editing all happened live, the hard drive crash determining edits.

"Lynn Marie Kirby belongs to that small group of artists who are creating, patiently and steadily,
new forms and new artistic events while using the resources of new technologies...

She is indeed an artist whose work represents simultaneously artistic explorations and
philosophical revolutions. She thinks with tools (cameras, screens, celluloid, etc.), exploring
them as if they were intellectual materials in their own right...positioning herself not in 'front' of
images but into them, within their structure, and making explode that which we usually take for
granted...

We have been immersed in a civilization -- an almost global one -- which favored permanence
over impermanence, materiality over evanescence, division over continuity, certitude over doubt, single definition over multiplicity of meaning, flickers of light over that which is covered by
immense shadows. All this is being shaken to its roots by a few artists (and scientists) such as
Kirby whose works are, finally, pure energy." - Etel Adnan


Salon: 61 rue de Maubeuge
Inspired by the complicated parquet pattern in the living room, I devised a system of
measuring using lengths of film to record space, light, and movement in the room.

Couloir
I walked down the hallway capturing the light and space, exposing film as I moved. The
film is printed with different lights at the lab, emphasizing the layered space of the film
emulsion.

L'entrée
I exposed film in the entrance foyer. The film is manipulated in the film to digital video
transfer, using the transfer process as another recording tool.

Scans 1-55
In conversation with Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document, this is a record and archive of
our son's growth in his first year, also of my community and the generous tradition of
welcoming a child into the world with gifts of clothes. I scanned the gifted clothes after
our son outgrew them. Labels on the baby clothes tell a parallel story of global
production.

DVD contains Salon: 61 rue de Maubeuge, Couloir, L'Entrée, and Scans: 1-55.