4: Velocity –October 2011; digital photograph

The assignment was Velocity. I was debating between a large scale un-stretched canvas on which I would run around on with painted feet, and shooting a few rolls of film without looking through the viewfinder, simply practicing to obtain a constant velocity of art making, rather than being knit-picky over fine details. Neither was “clicking” in my mind. Later, my friends and I were playing around with spray paint on the walls of my garage when it hit me: there is a definite velocity of paint atoms as they are sprayed onto a surface. I crouched down with my bridge camera and snapped a picture, almost sacrificing the lens, and captured the paint while in motion.