Jean-Paul Picard, Hoboken, NJ picardvisn@aol.com 201-264-1037 Artist Statement Since 2013 my work, called “Sweeps” are photographs that records time and movement captured by the moving camera during exposure. This sweeping effect, is like a painter’s brush moving across a canvas resulting in captured memories. Parts of the image are clear and sharp while others break up, fade, or disappear. The room provide the negative space free the photograph from the rigid frame. The only manipulation to the photograph before printing is sharpening, minor cropping and exposure adjustments as with any photograph in a traditional wet darkroom process. After printing the piece may be hand cut and shaped.