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