Night Portfolio

STATEMENT
What are you doing on my lawn?

American changes its character at night. A well-kept lawn organizes itself with eerie martial discipline. Trees slowly war with their estranged brothers the telephone poles, while a basketball hoop becomes a skeleton. When I stop to make a picture, it’s an elaborate ritual, a process of staring and adjusting, balancing a clumsy view camera on a tripod, and squinting at a ghost image flickering on glass. Because these pictures are taken at such long exposures, colors shift in unnatural ways, as the film is pressed into service beyond its intended, commercial parameters. From this revealed world my pictures emerge, colors pulled in every direction and hidden shadows illuminated.

These pictures contain stories about a world hidden in the daylight: of people uneasy and unsure of their welcome, of those who are safe and clean, yet bored and alone--the outlying data in an American experiment. These are stories of people who don’t quite belong in the American suburbs. The hero of this book is a quiet insomniac, who walks the sidewalks and lawns at night, staring at the hidden potential of sleep. Cars will pass by in the night with curious pauses. These pictures are dreams of the last hour before sunrise.

Andrew Ti, 2006

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