SHIFTING DIGITAL CONCIOUSNESS

Lawrence Horn, Manhattan born photographer active during the 70’s and early 80’s, is now ready to release his body of work that has been stored away for nearly four decades. Lawrence hopes that in sharing his work, these photographs would help to awaken the younger generations to consciousness of analog reality in the digital age. In the 1960’s, Lawrence began to explore “super consciousness” through meditation, yoga & psychedelics and became fascinated with infrared film once he learned that he could capture light frequencies that are not immediately visible by the retina but that can be felt as heat. By converting heat-waves into light forms, color infrared film photography maps the invisible in the visible. With the addition of color, crystalline (diffractive) & polarizing filters, the analog effects become truly psychedelic…helping to give the mind perspective of what is real & what is just another deeply immersive digital algorithmic projection.

COLOR + INFRARED FILM PHOTOGRAPHY

“To recreate the impact of my prior psychic/psychedelic experiences, I chose a heat-sensitive, infra-red film, giving me access to an extended range of chromatic frequencies [light not immediately visible by the retina]. These photos were able to capture the spectral effects of the interaction between invisible solar radiation and visible reality, by using clear diffractive filters to project a given ground-figure into the crystalline parallax gap.”

WHEN CAPTURED ON INFRARED HEAT SENSITIVE FILM, LIGHT FREQUENCIES EXISTING IN THE invisible INFRARED spectrum of light now BECOME VISIBLE to the human eye through color.

The human brain processes wavelengths of light from the visible light realm as color. The rainbow range of colors that exist within the visible light spectrum allow us to perceive our present physical reality. Infrared film photography, combined with the use of physical color and diffractive lens filters, enables one to see into a spectrum of light that exists outside of the scope of normal optical reality. When applying this technique, new colors from beyond the visible light realm emerge, broadening our understanding of vision in its entirety. Each analog photograph can been seen as window between the visible light & invisible infrared light spectrums, offering a rare glimpse into unseen realms.

amplitudes OF light + color

Lawrence’s body of work also extends outside of infrared. By retaining the use of color and diffractive filters, but swapping infrared film for standard color film, these photographs showcase his signature esoteric approach within color analog photography.

“This image represents air in its own suspended domain, pure openness. Air and light and rocks and that’s it. That’s why it’s so beautiful because it’s pure [empty].”