THRESHOLD
noun. The magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for a
certain reaction, phenomenon, result or condition to occur or be
manifested.
Due to withdrawal from a prescription medication for 57
straight days I slept 0-3 hours per night.
Extreme sleep deprivation will push you to the edge of sanity’s
cliff.
I learned that without sleep the “day” never ends. My world
devolved into slow motion while the one around me continued
on its natural rhythm.
On day 58 I finally slept four hours but my perception of time
had been so permanently distorted that the only path back to
cultural normalcy was to recreate the sensation for others to
experience.
Employing no digital manipulation or double-exposures, the
Threshold series illustrates the physical passage of time through
movement. The resulting pictures capture feathers falling for a
full second through different wavelengths of light while
subsequently compressing the variations into a new form.
Kerry Mansfield is a San Francisco based photographer whose artwork explores time and how it affects our perceptions of what we see. Her work has been exhibited globally and garnered numerous honors including LensCulture?s Single Image Award, multiple World Photography Organization and IPA Awards, and a Critical Mass Finalist multiple times. A host of press and publications, ranging from the PDN Photo Annual to the New York Times LensBlog, have featured several of her bodies of work. Her Expired series monograph was just released in fall 2017 receiving great reviews and the PX3 Bronze Award.
