corridoroflight

Jeremy Green “Rush” 11/12/23

This torchere is part of a larger installation entitled “Corridor of Light” that Cliff Garten Studio of Los Angeles was commissioned to create in Arlington, Virginia. I’m intimately familiar with this work, because I produced a photography portfolio of the project two years ago for Cliff. I happened to be back a couple of weeks ago for personal reasons, and I proposed a time lapse sequence of one torchere as it undulates through its program of vibrant color changes. I got the green light from Cliff. The lighting program is eleven and a half minutes long, and I set the camera to shoot two frames/second for the duration. This is one frame from that time lapse sequence. Did I shoot it? My camera shot it while I shivered in the chill and puffed on a fat cigar. Back home at my “Big Mac,” I felt kind of an “Oh!” when I saw this capture in my sequence of 1300+ frames. I love that rush, which I have often felt in 60 years of using a camera.