NICHOLAS ARBATSKY
T I M B E R L I N E S E R I E S
By capturing the shape of wind and the color of time, these objects appear just out of range of the viewer's focus, hovering in a state of suspended clarity.
The Images from the "Timberline Series" were photographed on the western slopes of Mt. Hood Oregon between the altitudes of 2,000 & 11,000 feet above sea level. The film was scanned to digital files and printed directly onto Sintra using archival UV pigmented ink. The viewpoint of the camera is determined by rotation and velocity using increments of 180, 270, & 360 degrees, while exposure length and motion record a layered panorama in a single negative.
Timberline Series presented as Digital Motion Capture Installations:
TSX Times Square Takeover in NYC 2023.
Times Square Artist Showcase Curated by Plogix Gallery 2023.
NFT.NYC 2023 Community Artists Showcase.
My fascination with the environment has developed over a 30 year career realizing projects that include petroleum soaked canvases made on site in Beauty Bay, Alaska during the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, to viewer activated installations for galleries and museums including "The Romance of Fuel Injected Flesh" & "In the Silence of 16 Valves Running". Other projects have utilized sculptural assemblages inspired by terrain parks built for extreme sports activities, becoming the performance stage for a summer snowboarding demonstration in NYC at Socrates Sculpture Park. The " Timberline Series" began in 1998 on the slopes of Mt. Hood, Oregon using a motion-based camera to capture the landscape as a discrete non-referential object, blurring the line between the familiar and the unrecognizable.
