00:00:45:00 takes its form from a found roll of film of 15 photographs, which upon inspection contained within its sequence 3 photographs taken in Hiroshima, Japan, sometime shortly after the atomic bomb ‘Little Boy’ was dropped over the city.  00:00:45:00 takes its temporal duration from the length of time it took ‘Little Boy’ to explode over the city from its release from the ‘Enola Gay’.

00:00:45:00 was not conceived as a memorial to the man who took these images, nor is the work a protest or celebration of war. 

This work is an investigation into the two-dimensionality of the picture plane and potential of photographs to contain varying levels of reflection, opacity, and transparency.  I hope these photographs evoke a certain ambiguity, an oscillation between reflected and actual reality; that invites inspection of the space and the meaning of the image.

00:00:45:00 is now on permanent display as part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Japan.