Commercial
PORTRAITURE
Samples of the many portraits that have been taken over the years, in many different settings, with many different objectives.
Film
35mm/120mm film (black and white/color)
A collection of recent film photography, mainly used to augment a better understanding of how the analog/chemical processing of imagery relates to exposure latitude, contrast, and color with respect to the human perception. Most are shot in available light.
ART
A selected collection of personal projects.
The Degradation of memory
Archival Silver Halide Prints
These are still images that have been manipulated digitally to produce anomalies within the images themselves. Each photograph is a façade of every home I had ever lived in up until the creation of the project. The inserted corruptions correspond to written accounts of my life during the times in which I lived at each location, with older locations receiving increased corruption to simulate the loss of memory over time. My written memories are digitally added to the images, creating the random corruptions that can be viewed by the audience. The goal is to visually represent how our memories are twisted by emotional influences, contextual experiences, and time itself. We can never look back on our own histories objectively, but rather we must observe our pasts with the corruption of our experiences permanently imprinted onto our memories.
Long-Distance Landscapes
Archival Silver Halide Prints
These landscapes, instead of the traditional moment in time and space, were created through time-based succession between two determined points that corresponded to a route Layne would often take to visit family, friends, the grocery store, etc. These series of images that spanned the distance and time traveled were then compressed to a two-dimensional representation of the time and spacial dimensions. They are a documentation of a familiar path, though abstracted and compressed. As we never truly remember every detail of a trek, but rather an abstracted idea of it, the images represent this idea of a journey, a flash of color and direction, which most memories often correlate to.
Time-Based Panoramas
Wide-Format Archival Matte Prints
Monet would often paint the same subject at different times of day to observe and experiment with the way light and color shift temporally. These images try to explore a similar notion: that as the sun tracks across the sky, the environment shifts. Cool afternoons become gauzy warm sunsets, which lead to inky darkness at night. To incorporate the temporal shifts into a singular image is an attempt to compress time into the space within the image. Wide-format prints were utilized to help create an immersive feel to the viewer, transporting them to a singular space, but in an indistinct time of day.
RURAL
Mixed media series, including archival silver halide prints and 35mm photography.
The culture of the fading pastoral Midwest is layered, protective, and immersive. There is a special connection to home/nostalgia present in the images that would seem to be simple documentary-style shots, while others are an attempt to convey and document the nature of cultural staples within the "flyover states," such as rodeo, agriculture, and religion. Most of the images were taken in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas, with an emphasis in Cimmaron County, OK.
