The two photographs presented each consist of a series of exposures recording the movement of a train, specifically the trains that run alongside ristorante da Mauro. They feature two different perspectives. The one inside the restaurant features exposures taken aboard the train in the moments it passed by (from a moving position). The second, exhibited on the exterior, features exposures taken from the bridge just outside the restaurant, of the train passing (from a static position). Both series were realized using the technique of pinhole photography, in which a miniscule hole is punctured in a closed (dark) container, thus activating the phenomenon of light that produces photographic exposures. 

I am interested in methods of photography that slow down the velocity and pace of vision. The pinhole freezes fragments of time, recording passages of light, distance, and movement. It does not permit control of the images like modern cameras. It is a simple device for capturing images of the world. It has been descried as a “treasure box”. The exposures overlap in horizontal sequence, perhaps conjuring a cinematic progression of time. They are enclosed within an ellipse, a form that recalls the shape of the eye, the fundamental point of comings and goings where vision begins and ends.