TIME! It is all about the time of the thing... I have shot pinhole images that take anywhere from 10 seconds to one week or two. I can live life during those times. I can have memories of a life lived and experiences had during the exposure of those images. I can remember things that I did while the image was being created. I cannot remember what happened to me during 1/250th of a second. I have no memories and the picture happened somewhat in spite of my experiences during such a short time. TIME - I have made shots that have captured the arc of the sun passing from one side of the room to another and the movement of the light and shadows as that arc is scribed. I have made shots taken at night and on into the morning where the streetlights are in the shot and the early morning sunrise as well. Pinhole gives me pictures while I am otherwise living life. I can be doing many things and the picture machine is still making my art. I can be sleeping or watching a movie or teaching a class or walking on the beach or in the woods or around a waterfall and the pinhole is recording and recording and watching the same things that I am watching. It is there with me and we remember the same things because we looked at the same things together. And because I am recording on positive material (either Polaroid or Cibachrome or B&W Positive paper), the very piece of paper that was in the camera during the experience of watching and recording is also now with me when I return home or look at the image again - it was there! So! There are more reasons like the lure of the high tech(cibachrome) with the primitive(primitive) and the ease of working loosely within those disciplines. Lovely things these pinholes cameras and the artists and images that get made - they are truly magical and a reminder that alone we do nothing!
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