Marfa-based artist, Erika Blumenfeld, brings her Moving Light series to this year’s Fusebox Festival.

In Moving Light: Spring 2005, Blumenfeld documented the 93 days between the vernal equinox and the summer solstice, the days in the year that comprise the season known as Spring.  At the exact moment of civil sunset on March 20 (equinox), Blumenfeld recorded a two-second exposure of the sun onto a single sheet of film. For the subsequent 92 days she documented the sunlight at that exact same moment onto separate sheets of film. The resulting 93 images were animated in sequence to produce Moving Light: Spring 2005.

Blumenfeld, a 2008 Guggenheim fellow, is an internationally exhibiting artist who has developed a process whereby natural light is explored as both the medium and the subject of her work.  Foregoing the use of a traditional camera, she directly exposes light sensitive photographic papers, films, and digital media to the ever-changing sunlight and moonlight.

Blumenfeld’s installations have been exhibited widely in the US and Europe and her work has been featured in Art in America, ARTnews, Arte Contemporary, and Camera Arts magazines, and is included in The Polaroid Book published by Taschen. She appears at Fusebox courtesy of the Robert C Solomon foundation and broxiARTS.