Photographic Works — Index I
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Manufactured Turbulence - Collision
These images capture the precise moment turbulence begins to emerge—light is pulled and scattered through the shifting edge of a vortex, offering glimpses into an invisible architecture where water, motion, and perception collide.
These images push deeper into the interiority of turbulence, where roiling fragments and filaments are suspended in saturated color fields—flattened and framed like abstract paintings, yet pulsing with kinetic charge.
Manufactured Turbulence - Interiors
Manufactured Turbulence - Watercolor 1
These works from Manufactured Turbulence embody David Teeple’s exploration of perception, suspending fluid chaos in moments of profound observation; through water, light, and glass, they reveal the interplay of scientific structure and mystical perception.
Manufactured Turbulence - Emergence
These two images from the Manufactured Turbulence series capture a state of near-laminar flow, where water moves in smooth, uninterrupted layers. The controlled stream contrasts with the dynamic, textured surroundings, emphasizing the delicate threshold between order and chaos in fluid motion.
Wave Dissection
These images capture the intricate turbulence of a river’s rapids at close range, where rushing water fractures light into shifting ribbons of reflection and refraction, entangling with moss-covered rocks and submerged debris; within this dynamic collision of clarity and distortion, textures dissolve into fluid abstraction, revealing microcosmic landscapes of movement, depth, and fleeting luminescence that exist only for an instant before being reshaped by the river’s relentless flow.
A Series of Asymmetrical Refractions
The still water within these still tanks becomes a medium for refraction and reflection, where light bends and fractures across glass surfaces, suspended bubbles punctuate the space with rhythmic clusters, and faintly inscribed text emerges and dissolves depending on the viewer’s position, creating an interplay between solidity and impermanence.
Slow Light
This series from Slow Light explores stillness through the presence of glass bottles, where subtle shifts in light, reflection, and arrangement create a quiet dialogue between materiality and void; each image captures a suspended moment, emphasizing the delicate balance between opacity and transparency, weight and weightlessness, as the bottles hover between tangible form and ephemeral illusion.
Submerged Mithras
Layered with time and perception, these images interweave the material and the mythic—etched text dissolving into liquid suspension, Roman narratives resurfacing through refracted glass, and bubbles clinging to vessels like whispers from a submerged past—blurring the threshold between history, ritual, and the ephemeral nature of belief.
The Falcon and the Foe
This series explores our relationship with the media screen and its role in shaping culture. The Maltese Falcon is projected into a monitor, its imagery refracted and fragmented in a water-filled glass tank. The film’s characters break into shifting planes, re-contextualizing the narrative. At a pivotal moment, they are reflected in a jar of cow eyeballs and formaldehyde, creating a surreal existential tension.
These images capture the dynamic interplay between turbulence and containment, where fluid motion is suspended in glass chambers, refracted through layers of saturated light and inverted color fields, transforming the chaos of swirling currents into ethereal, almost cosmic landscapes of diffusion and energy.