Time | Place Series
In this ongoing series of photo grids, the intent is to visually explore temporal moments in time, place and space. Some grids depict an hour in time and space, others represent a day, while some occur over many days. They are about moving—traveling—it is the seeing for the first time that awakens the sense of being. By focusing on distant images in nature, one may begin to clarify, process, or reflect on what is close. They are, in ways, inspired by the work of photographer Atta Kim, the writings of philosopher’s Joseph Campbell and Martin Heidegger.
As an artist interested in both modernist and postmodernist discourse, these photo grids provide a sense of order to an otherwise chaotic, information-dominant culture. Having spent many years creating graphic visual identity for marketers, an acute sense of awareness to the affects of these visual messages has emerged. These photo grids provide an alternative time and place to the vastness and omnipotence of these visual messages, providing a vehicle to transcend what Fredric Jameson calls the “simulacra.”
Further the digital camera is used as an appendage to the body, illustrating a vantage point disconnected to the eye, shifting the viewer’s perspective. As I move through time and space the camera is pointed outward, away from the body, toward a particular landscape or skyscape, cap- turing its particular image of time and space. By disconnecting the camera from my eye, I am free to focus on the moment, on what I am seeing and experiencing. When working on the Time | Place Series, I am brought to a place of reflection, contemplation, and transcendence of the here and now.
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