Telescope Tondos (2021–present) is an ongoing project that consists of a series of live images taken using my iPhone and a telescope from the window of an apartment in Brooklyn, NY, where I temporarily lived because of COVID. These moving vistas capture the ever-changing sky, urban street scenes, and views into the private residences of my neighbors. They are a response to dislocation and social distancing. Each composition frames a potential story about a community or place I am not interacting with. The moving imagery is otherworldly as the telescope flattens and flips the space. This body of work asks: in the time of COVID – where everything is mediated by screens – can digital voyeurism stand in for intimacy and community?

Over time this project has taken the form of an instagram feed, videos, posters, and websites.

Directly below is the website (https://telescopies.glitch.me/) embedded in this page. Click into the canvas, use your arrow keys or the blue links, consisting of date and time each image was captured, on the left to navigate through the space.

Exhibitions

Design Biennial, MassArt x SOWA, Juried Alumni Exhibition, Boston MA , 2022 [link] 

Telescope Tondos, The Sidewalk Video Gallery, Fountain Street, Boston MA, 2021 [link]

New Media Exhibition, virtual, The In Art Gallery, juror Jessee Rose Crane; 1st place award, 2021 [link]

Press

Panelist, The Sidewalk Inside, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA, March 19, 2022 [link]

Interviewed by Dana Gerber, “In SoWa Art + Design District, video gallery brings art to the sidewalk 24/7,” The Boston Globe, Boston MA, December 28, 2021 [link]