These photographs are of mirrors, made using a large format camera. A strip of white tape adhered to the mirror's surface creates a vertical interruption that partially blocks the reflected image of the artist and camera. After scanning the negative, I separate the image into color channels in Photoshop and shift them horizontally, producing a controlled misregistration that makes the single line appear doubled.
The title Binaries points to the basic logic of digital information, the on/off of an electrical signal, but it also hints at the work's algorithmic nature. Binary 1 and Binary 2 come from the exact same source scan. One becomes two through a small intervention: a channel shift that generates a counterpart image without changing the underlying photograph. Seen side by side, the pair frames the image as both material trace and algorithmic construction, moving from one state into another. The operation leaves an in-between trace that is neither one nor two. I see possibilities in that indeterminacy.