ART
Selected works across image, sound, technology and landscape. Individual works, limited editions, site-responsive installations and commissions are available for acquisition and presentation.
NEW AND IN PROCESS
OPPOSED PARKING METERS
Two modified yellow Amano parking meters face one another across a museum-scale Zen garden. Raked gravel, a central rock and irregular stepping stones invite visitors into the space between them. Conceived as a site-responsive installation for PLEASE FORGET (EVERYTHING), the proposed garden extends approximately forty meters.
FUGITIVES
A one-of-a-kind PLEASE FORGET (EVERYTHING) oversized artist’s book, hoop bound, produced in Greece, whose images are deliberately fugitive, intended to fade, quickly. Light, time, handling and atmosphere become collaborators: the work changes as it is encountered. Pages are translucent, photographic and drawn on. Layered. Tactile. Ephemeral.
Selected images from this one-of-a-kind book will be offered as larger individual prints.
CARPET SCANNER
A prototype optical instrument built to read selected historic carpets as encoded surfaces. Custom firmware extracts information from weave, wear and recurrent symbols—including forms echoing symbolic inscriptions found at Göbekli and Karahan Tepe—into image and sound. The scanner searches for information carried through pattern, touch, and time. Music emerges. Curiously inter-active. A machine approaching sentience, exhibiting a form of wisdom, perhaps. Maintain humor. See You in Athens.
EXISTING AND TRAVELING WORKS
PLEASE FORGET (EVERYTHING)
FIELD STATION
PLEASE FORGET (EVERYTHING)
FIELD STATION
RECIPES FOR THE MIND
Photographs, lucid dreams, and feverish word clouds from an off-the-beaten-path life. These 108 images travel from photograph to hand-altered print, into the digital, and back again—bending time, memory, and the occasional rule.
Buy the book on Amazon · Terra Nova Press / MIT Press
CARBON merges the aesthetics of space exploration and scientific imaging with the interpretation of abstract symbols. I’m interested in extremophiles, the origins of life on earth, and what forms sentience might assume elsewhere in the universe. Would we recognize it hovering in front of us? What began with a camera-less method I discovered while experimenting with photograms, and drawing, has grown into immersive environments including large stills, video, multi-point sound and inter-active sculptures. Fifteen years after it's inception CARBON is now available in book form. Thank you to publisher Michelle Dunn Marsh, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Jill Tarter and the SETI Institute, Lyle Rexer, Chris Allan at Bridge Photographic, Peter Raymond / Human Condition, and all the collaborators and supporters who encouraged the process. I'm about to produce an edition of small prints. The larger photographs, unique stainless steel books, and videos are available in small editions. Book available here from MinorMattersBooks.com
NEAR(ER)
Near(er) imagines a virtual geography where nature, technology and consciousness combine with memories, myths and hallucinations. This evolving multi-media collaboration merges far flung travels, live performance, video installations, still photographs, sound works.
WIND TUNNEL
MENTAWAI SHAMAN
Keeper of the Rain Forest
Photographs and journals from Charles Lindsay’s time with Mentawai shaman Aman Lau Lau Manai in Indonesia. Everyday life, healing, and the relationship between people, forest, and spirits. Historical essay by Reimar Schefold.
TURTLE ISLANDS
Balinese Ritual and the Green Turtle
A photographic study of the green turtle’s place in Balinese ritual, bringing cultural traditions and the living animal into the same frame.
UPSTREAM
Fly Fishing in the American West
Black-and-white photographs of fly-fishing in the American West, with an eye for water, movement, and the unexpected. Photographs by Charles Lindsay; text by Thomas McGuane.
LOST BALLS
Great Holes, Tough Shots, and Bad Lies
Golf seen from the rough: wayward shots, unexpected wildlife, and encounters beyond the fairway. Photographs by Charles Lindsay, with a foreword by John Updike.
CODE Humpback
NEAR(ER)
WIND TUNNEL
PHOTOGRAPHY AND EARLY WORK
PUBLICATIONS · ARCHIVE
Books, editions and extended project records.