Tornado

TORNADO showcases a mustang’s journey in the Sonoran Desert through a careful sequence of GoPro film stills, examining time, motion and its trance-like quality by way of consumer technology. The debut photobook from artists Jackie Furtado and Jennifer Haare makes photography a subject to consider. Through formal experimentation, the book engages with photography’s technological history and questions the medium’s insatiable desire to see, capture, and control. Sequencing film stills derived from Furtado and Haare’s experimental film, Valley Fever, the book follows the movement of a horse named Tornado, captured by a camera suspended from the horse’s belly. A motion study in book form, the photographs begin to spiral through the book’s layout like a slow-moving tornado as the images succeed into abstraction. Hooves and legs warp into elongated forms, the horse’s belly morphs into a darkened landscape, and bits of sand, gravel, and water cloud each image thereafter, rendering pixels like