Sean Hugh Murphy
Twilight Study, number 5065, archival digital print, 7"x5", 2006, $200 I am a musician, photographer, painter, writer, and web designer/programmer living in Maine. Lately I have been working with digital photographs taken at dusk, forcing the camera to behave in strange ways, outside of its anticipated use. I think the thing I like the most about these images is their sense of motion as a metaphor for time. As I get older, I see my life much more as a blur, where time seems to speed up as each year passes. When I look at these images they represent that acceleration of time very clearly to me. I also love the colors, and the way solid objects do not seem solid when photographed in this way. All buildings fall with time, no matter how well-maintained; nature, friction, gravity, and weather claim everything eventually, regardless of the material. Instead of sadness or some morose sense of self-pity, these pictures remind me of the ephemeral quality of experience, life, and form, but in a way that I can continue to feel the deep love, attachment, and affection I have for them; instead of grief, fear or even horror over their eventual loss. 
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