Paper Airplanes
Unique folded chromogenic photographs
2011
Paper Airplanes is an installation of 57 light-sensitive paper airplanes exposed to the sky, one by one, over a period of twelve hours at a WWII anti-aircraft lookout post. Tennessee Cove, CA.
During WWII soldiers were deployed to man several anti-aircraft lookout posts along the California coast. All day and night they looked west, watching the horizon over the Pacific Ocean for signs of enemy planes. Instead, these men became unlikely observers of the sea and sky. They saw the light change and must have watched hundreds of sunsets. The 44 images in this installation are color photographic paper that was folded into paper airplanes and then each exposed, for a moment, to the coastal light over a period of twelve hours. Together, they are a record of one day of observation, dawn till dusk.