71" x 106", Digital Lightjet print on Kodak archival paper with UV protective coating, mounted on Sintra, reinforced with wooden subframe. Edition of 12.

Made over the course of three years using a robotic webcam installed on the rooftop of the Hilton Hotel in Ventura, California, flotsam gives a close-up look of a beach littered with pebbles, concrete blocks, trash and kelp, and inhabited by squirrels, pigeons, seagulls and humans. The changing seasons, tides, light and weather, are compressed into one composite scene. A boulder has a double shadow -one captured in the morning, the other in the evening. A piece of driftwood appears several times in the image, having been picked up and dropped elsewhere by a beachcomber. Each individual webcam image is a true photographic representation of one moment in time and space, yet the sum of their arrangement has a hyper-realistic effect.

flotsam was first exhibited at Cabrillo Gallery in Aptos, California during ON/OFF: ART IN THE DIGITAL ERA
October 8 - November 2, 2007

Production of flotsam is supported by the The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.