I will have a few more photos soon. But right now I've been putting in somewhere around 30 hrs a week on these things and I'm just about done. I haven't counted yet but I know I'm running out of storage room!
The latest writing is getting posted here - the artist statement. If I get a chance I'll try to link up the other papers.
I'd like to mention to anyone reading that if you are working along any of these lines, I'd love to hear from you. Let me know what you've tried and how it's going or what you're ideas are!
Artist Statement
In examining the
meaning and expectation of what a photograph is, this work creates a tension
and confusion in the viewer. Meaning comes from seeking to understand and
organize the pieces as if a puzzle, making the viewer implicit in the work.
In the Haystack
series there are multiple readings and several levels of associations that make
the certainty of what it is even harder to pin down. This deliberate confusion
invites questions, provokes reactions, and realigns thought patterns. By choosing
to deny the traditional beauty, image, and preciousness of earlier photographic
traditions, tension is introduced along a tight line of understanding and
misunderstanding. Puzzling out meaning and re-aligning the idea of what
constitutes a photograph is elemental in my work.
