Davey Whitcraft

About

In Looking at the Sky I am concerned mostly with the act of seeing. What does it feel like to experience the atmosphere of a scene? We learn to selectively identify and classify what we see, but here I wanted to see if I could gently subvert that tendency. I used my infrared camera and software to abstract landscape photographs until the experience of viewing became more feeling rather than thinking.

The exhibition includes two looping single-channel videos, Metaphysical Supplements and The Altogether Now. With the videos I worked in two distinct modes. In Metaphysical Supplements I wanted to see how a machine might translate the same images from the show, using generative software to autonomously create an alternative visual translation, In The Altogether Now, I shot on location with aerial video to and reconfigured the images manually.
San Francisco Chronicle
Minnesota Street Project
Immersive Arts Alliance
Full image catalogue

The Watershed, Petaluma 2024
Stock Studios, Los Angeles, 2023
Themes+Projects, San Francisco, 2023
Art Market San Francisco, 2023
SF Decorators Showcase w/Noz Nozawa, 2023
Immersive Arts Alliance, Oakland, 2023

Color photographs on Dibond panel
36x36/48x48/60x60 inches
Original works

Metaphysical Supplements: Single-channel HD video (16:9), runtime 02:59
The Altogether Now: Single-channel HD video (16:9), runtime 04:00

Curator (Stock Studio): Kali Nikitas
Curator (Themes+Projects): Bryan Yedinak

Purchase inquiries

Noorderlicht, 2022. color photograph on dibond panel, 48 x 48 inches
Noorderlicht Deux, 2022. color photograph on dibond panel, 48 x 48 inches
Salmuera II, 2025. color photograph on dibond panel, 48 x 48 inches
Terre de Médiation Falaise, 2022. color photograph on dibond panel, 36 x 36 inches
Suppléments Métaphysiques, 2022. color photograph on dibond panel, 60 x 60 inches

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