Circuit Board Species is a celebration of technology that explores the vast networks of interconnectivity binding all things in the universe to each other. This work is filled with wide-ranging references, from Rayonism to street art to particle physics, and uses robotic techniques invented by Jeff to achieve an otherworldly aesthetic. Reverse light painting is the nickname for this technique. Motorized motion control equipment is used in a way it was never intended: to draw in the sky using any light source opposite the camera lens. Think of the sun as a point of light. In this work, this point becomes the tip of a paintbrush. So does any other point of light, including cities at night, blinking LED lights in a server farm, and even the stars. As a result, every composition you see here was created with repeated physical movement, thus also traveling through time via time-lapse photography.

Although I began shooting using this technique all the way back in 2012 during Circle of Abstract Ritual, it is not a project that has been fully realized in film form.

The images in this gallery are selected from time-lapse photography ‘scenes’ and are available as unique limited prints.