Insulating Foam, 2003

Ink print, 22.5 x 19.5 finished to 27.5 x 24.5 inches. Collection of the University of Alaska Museum of the North, the Anchorage Museum and private collections.

Associated Press photographer Bruce Weaver was one of many who documented the 1986 explosion of the space
shuttle Challenger. To reconstruct his image I sprayed expanding insulating foam onto sheets of waxed paper from
a pressure filled can. Eventually I was able to get a reasonable facsimile of the shape of the explosion captured in
the widely published Weaver photograph. The foam was allowed to set, removed from the waxed paper, affixed to a
painted board and photographed.