Liquid chlorophyll, cotton paper or cotton canvas. Dimensions vary.
Selected piece exhibited at Pioneer Works, New York.

This series of work was first conceived when I spent two winters in Iceland in 2012 and 2013. There I often found myself sitting in front of a window, watching the indistinct land-sea-sky-scape illuminated by a glow that was not exactly sunlight but a grayish reflection that seemed to originate from each and every surface of the organic and constructed world. It was not difficult then to notice that I myself was equally hungry for daylight as the mossy field in front of me and the phytoplankton underneath the ocean surface, whose sustenance depends on the sun perhaps more directly. Then one day, for a second time that winter, twenty thousand tons of herring died in a western fjord due to a lack of oxygen; their silver-blue bodies were washed up on the shore, forming a massive sheet of scaly mirror that glowed for days.

21 Hours of Day & 29 Hours of Night (37"x39") canvas

41 Hours of Day & 59 Hours of Night (19"x20")

23 Hours of Day & 29 Hours of Night (38"x50")

22 Hours of Day & 44 Hours of Night (38"x 50")

18 Hours of Day & 29 Hours of Night (38"x50")

17 Hours of Day & 15 Hours of Night (38"x49")

15 Hours of Day & 15 Hours of Night (diptych, 38"x50" each)

33 Hours of Day & 44 Hours of Night (diptych, 38"x50" each)