Validity

Race, 2009

When we are looking at a photograph, we are looking at history. The same is true for a painting, a sculpture, or even a memory. We see things as they were, what was meant. I guess I have a running curiosity behind this because of moments I wish to capture in my life. I am constantly looking at images as still lifes, what makes my everyday, and what contributes to another. Each action we take, creates a shadow to another.... I guess that is a good thing to remember.

When someone creates art, bad or good to anothers eye, its theirs for the keeping. That's what I love about art. The creation, the process, the thinking behind it. When someone tells me they are not an artist, I deny. We all are, whether it be science, math, business, etc....our daily actions our the art. Maybe we can start to see it that way. By capturing this in photo, it becomes archived as our everyday, and valid of what was.

Try to start looking, seeing things as they are accustomed to your eye. You will see more colors, more shadows, and see what you as the viewer create. It is the basics that we are made up of, and it is the basics that make us whole.

Wash, 2009

Wind Storm, 2009

 

Tunnel Vision, 2009

Truths

I have continued to experiment with my photos of nothing. I've realized why I enjoy these photos so much....they leave all interpretations valid. Each viewer has the opportunity to be disappointed, to question, or to simply disregard. To me, that is what art is all about.

Artist Gabriel Orozco put it brilliantly in a recent article on his art, " Art is not for entertainment, and it’s not for pleasure. It’s about something else altogether. Art is a tool. If someone, after looking at the work, can see things they never saw before in reality, that is one of the most important accomplishments for me.”

He did these installations of yogurt caps at MoMA NY which illustrates my similar interests. It shows the balance between art and life, and how we complete the circumference of the balance. It's not beautiful, it's not breathtaking, it's his truth. To me, this disappointment of an art piece is pure brilliance. Think about what you start to question when you see this.... "this is not art, this is not worthy... " It is those thoughts that make you think...yes, we live it. Our consumption, our society, our art is in front of us everyday, here he displays just that.

Yogurt Cap, Gabriel Orozco

Yogurt Caps, MoMA NY, Gabriel Orozco

I find myself after looking at his work, searching for it in my everyday. What do we see everyday and take for granted. What images pass us by that we are accustomed to that we choose to not stop and look at. Attached are the photos of my nothings..... my disappointments turned into silent triumphs. It creates my reality, and determines what I look towards. The simplicity makes our everyday, and it is that I look to capture. Absence speaks more than presence.

Validity, 2009

Wander, 2009

Symmetry, 2009