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<H3> Summer, 1993 - 1998 </H3>

Peggy Ann Jones
Artist Statement
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MonoLake.com is a series of images of Mono Lake in California. They were made with a lensless camera, often referred to as a pinhole camera; the most primitive of photographic devices. Reflections of light enter through a tiny hole. While the pinhole camera exposes slowly, the light sensitive material (Polaroid film) can be processed instantly. An unforeseen accident while cranking the developing device created the horizontal lines across the images. Each photograph was unique, varied in both color and character with chromatic grain like noise on a TV or computer screen. I dreamed of my Mono Lake images on the Internet. I wanted them to be about Mono Lake, not only in a visually descriptive sequence but in reference to the ‘information highway’ and the language of the computer. The history of Mono Lake is described both in the rock formations and in the textual information incorporated into the compositions. On one level, this series can be viewed as a dialogue between the old and the new, between the past and the future.
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