Interference

Nothing is especially photoshopped here–the weird spiraling colors are from interference patterns, layers of them, caused by the digital nature of the camera when it is photographing a screen made of pixels. Sometimes all those rows of pixels line up and weird things happen. 

I made the source images in late 2019, part of them made during an artist-in-residence at the Mojave National Preserve. I was living in a dorm with park service employees and I would come home way after dark (after shooting all day and then making night images) and would sit at the kitchen table while they watched TV, downloading the day’s photographs. Once that was done I would take screenshots of pictures from the New York Times, CNN, and Fox News web sites. They thought I was an odd duck.