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Artist Statement: About the Fine Art Photographs“VISION IS A FIXED SENSATION” JUNE 2008For many people, vision is a fixed sensation. We see a house, and it's just a house. We see a road, car, tree, or shrub, a field, valley, hill or mountain, and that's just what they are, well-known objects, familiar shapes. They're seen as normal, everyday interlocked pieces in the big picture of their world. Our eyes send this well-worn, familiar message to our brain that says, "here's a house-car-tree-mountain", and the imagination says, So What's New? That old and weary “fixed vision” we carry around is what I want to challenge. It's my desire to make our unseeing eyes see daily life from a new perspective. That desire is the driving force behind my new digital work. I make photographs of common, everyday, well-worn subjects that our eyes have seen a million times before. But these photographs, these images,
bend and stretch the reality of these common moments. The imagination now has to expand to understand what we would normally call “a photograph.” As the imagination seeks to interpret this new look at the common world, that routine way of seeing life should open to new, surreal vistas. By using long shutter speeds, sometimes even moving the camera during the exposure, the results are impressionistic images that take everyday subjects way beyond their normal appearances. Instead of photographic moments measured in the traditional fraction of a second, my visual moments now range anywhere from 1 second to 15 seconds. While still bordered by the usual rectangular frame we’re all used to seeing, inside that frame the world no longer resembles that fixed vision we’ve imprinted upon our brains. |
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