Artwork copyright Mike Mandel. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Flying, 1983
Mike Mandel
American (born 1950)
Location: Captain Strong Elementary School, Battle Ground
About the Artwork
Flying is part of artist Mike Mandel's series of photographs that feature colorful light trails, created using a long exposure to capture the movement of light. This series both references and whimsically parodies early photographic studies of human motion (called chronocyclegraphs), that were used as a training tool by industrial factories to analyze worker efficiency in the early twentieth century.
This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Battle Ground Public Schools.
About the Artist
Artist Mike Mandel creates large-scale mosaic murals using photographic imagery. He states that his "approach to permanent public art is to tap into the intertwined stories of history, myth, images of land and community."Mandel received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from the California State University Northridge in 1972. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1974.
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