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Movement Portraits   Photographic composite series: variable dimensions, 2007 and 2011.           Various images from the series Movement Portraits, as installed at WARC Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2011       Description   Actualized through custom Processing software, Movement Portraits are photographic composites that depict pedestrian movement through a sliver of urban space. Time in each of the Movement Portraits is represented—literally—from the left side of the image to right (for example, the left-most edge represents 12:00:00, and the right-most edge represents 12:00:03). As a result, static elements recorded are repeated in thin vertical slivers causing a horizontal streaking affect. Moving elements such as pedestrians, pass through the sliver being recorded, and are rendered as recognizable figures.