Various Light Games (America)
Views 1-20, 2013
Kaiser Slideviewer and Slide
3 in x 2.5 in x 2 in
STATEMENT
There are intersections between our lived experiences and our projected personas—we construct and fabricate, we pull and twist things incorporating that into our daily lives. At play in my work is the exchange between participatory fiction and the created reality that results from such fictions. In my work, photographs are signifiers of thought not moments in time. I place rigid aesthetic concepts to critique and extract iconic spaces. Any space can be iconic, from a bedroom to a statue. Our lives are filled with signifiers, but we do not often challenge them. We accept, we digest and we reflect.
We see a photograph and we participate, we add ideas, we mimic, we become and then we reproduce. Notably, we replicate alone, we mime subconsciously only feeding off one another with our vision.
We see, we change, we see.
In the American civilized discourse certainly: we share without confrontation; we share and learn through observation. Experience is merely a matter of looking, thinking, and remembering. We hold whole private but public histories in our minds because we have seen them in photographs. We are Hannah Arendt’s private men; our spaces and lives exist only in our photographically informed memories. Our interpretations of a world we know but do not actually know are lines in light searching to be clad in flesh and blood. This work is one of my attempts in ending that search.
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