One Month, Weather Permitting, 2009 is a series of photographs of the night sky over Banff, Canada. Set up within the framework of an experiment, the photographs capture long-exposure star trails for two or three consecutive nights on a single sheet of film throughout the period of a month. Environmental interruptions, such as passing clouds, light pollution, and light leaks, are all recorded in the process. The set of thirteen images are also chance compositions. Chance becomes a stand in for those things that are larger than the individual which resist imposed structure and order. Motivated in part by a desire to find tactile qualities within a realm that is beyond our reach, the photographs register star trails—the most basic photographic artifacts of light and film—that carry the illusion of scratches made directly onto film. These scratches chart the movement of the camera and the stars, mapping a relationship between the two.

The star trails are exhibited alongside photographs of the surrounding mountains and landscape that were made when bad weather prevented photography the night before. The landscape photographs ground the work in its own environment, and refer to 19th century photographic ideas. History is a continuum and a counterpoint to a contemporary sensibility contained in the star trail images.