Prismatic Tracks
by Bryan Graf

Prismatic Tracks is optical research into kinetic photograms made with light, mesh screen and photosensitive paper. Perspective is everything. Light is exposed onto the paper from various angles, with multiple colors, to create these images. Paths of light cross one, another on the sheet of paper - filtered, refracted, warped and bent as they travel through the screens onto paper. Multiple paths are made and the light generates new forms as the exposures of light from various angles blend together. These prints are the results of physically moving around a sheet of light sensitive paper with a flash at different angles, primary-colored filters stuffed in my pockets, and folding mesh screen to generate the forms on paper. This work has nothing to do with abstraction or the preconditioned and specious history of an abstract movement. It has everything to do with being obsessed and consumed with light and the primal and necessary manifestations it conjures in our imaginations.

— Bryan Graf on Prismatic Tracks (Yancey Richardson Gallery)

Production Specs

Trim Size: 8.75x11in
Page Count: 48
Binding: Perfect Bound
Format: Paperback
Printing: 4 Color & Duotone
Paper Stock: 100#T Silk Coated Ultra White
Cover Material: Colorplan (Smoke)
Cover Details: Printed 1C (Black), Foil Stamp (Yellow)

Colophon

Design: Christina Labey & Bryan Graf
ISBN: 978-0-9908016-2-7
Publication Date: 2014
Edition Size: 200