ToddWaxStudios · South Florida

ToddWaxStudios

Photography and video built around the finished frame first. Motion, trace, and exposure sit behind the image, revealing how South Florida light turns waterfronts, venues, and atmosphere into something felt.

Enter Works Open Archive

Eight featured works. A wider archive behind them.

The home page now leads with the current eight-piece public set: finished-image-led works up front, with archive studies, fragments, and motion traces feeding the field behind them.

8

Featured works currently carried in the main sequence

12

Current archive studies, loop pieces, and fragments

30+

Years shaped by South Florida light, waterfronts, streets, and venues

2

Method order: final image first, motion trace second

Ormond Beach, Florida

Ormond Awakening

Top

A sunrise on the shores of Ormond Beach resolves into a glowing heart, turning a brief natural alignment into a symbol of optimism, radiance, and earned presence.

Medium: Digital photography / video
Location: Ormond Beach, Florida
Display logic: Final still leads; motion and the start frame exist only to reveal the path into it

Process note

The heart image remains the work. The motion trace only clarifies how the alignment arrives and disappears.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Luminous Frequency

Featured

At a Pigeons Playing Ping Pong show in Fort Lauderdale, stage lighting overtakes the room and becomes the subject, turning performance into a field of beams, haze, reflection, and rhythm.

Medium: Digital photography / video
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Display logic: Poster-first still with motion reveal and a single stage-reference frame

Process note

The resolved image stays dominant. The opening stage reference is enough to show the room before the light breaks it apart.

Delray Beach, Florida

Delray Palm Drift

Featured

An abstract palm study from Delray Beach where sun, sky, and movement dissolve into radiant vertical motion and a bright coastal wash of light.

Medium: Digital photography / video
Location: Delray Beach, Florida
Process: Intentional camera movement / long-exposure style abstraction

Process note

The finished frame stays in front. The start frame gives orientation before the palm and sun slip into abstraction.

South Florida object study

Emerald Suspension

Featured

A suspended green form holds just enough object logic to stay legible before reflected light and motion turn it into a floating field of color.

Medium: Digital photography / video
Field: South Florida interior / object study
Display logic: Resolved still first with motion source used only as provenance

Process note

The object remains legible only long enough for the finished frame to earn its abstraction.

Performance / signal study

Star-Spangled Haze

Featured

A live-performance frame where beams, haze, and crowd spill stack into a red-white-blue afterimage and the room resolves as signal instead of documentation.

Medium: Digital photography / video
Field: South Florida venue / loop study
Display logic: Poster-first still with the motion source behind it

Process note

The finished frame stays primary. The loop only clarifies how the haze gathers and breaks apart.

Signal / haze study

Green Pulse

Featured

A green beam study held as a resolved still, where stage spill and atmosphere condense into a vertical pulse without needing a motion handoff to land.

Medium: Digital photography
Field: Performance / stage-wave study
Display logic: Finished still only

Process note

This one earns its place through the final frame alone.

Ceiling-beam study

Emerald Chandelier

Featured

A ceiling-light study where the room lifts into a hanging emerald canopy and the architecture survives only as shimmer and rhythm.

Medium: Digital photography
Field: Interior light / overhead structure
Display logic: Finished still only

Process note

The abstraction is strong enough that a single final image carries the experience.

Magenta performance study

Fuchsia Cascade

Featured

A magenta-heavy performance study where cascading light turns the stage into a vertical wash of pink, ember, and spill.

Medium: Digital photography
Field: Live venue / color-fall study
Display logic: Finished still only

Process note

The image works because the final frame already contains the energy of the performance.

Archive First

The wider body of work stays open in the archive.

New pieces, loop studies, afterimages, and incoming work land in the archive first. It is the flexible field where the body grows before a piece earns its way into the slower anchor sequence.