an act of selection
Exhibition a part of Boulder’s Month of Photography.
Viewable from March 7th through April 14th, 2019.
I’ve been inescapably drawn to the theater of the American Southwest since 2010. A few, of the many, mainstay icons of that unique land have continually captured my attention and are showcased here: horses, hoodoos, & impartial skies. The original photographs are modestly altered to allow for better tone, contrast, and color. All are alive, every part in their best light. Yet, to complement the representational aspect as presented, I’ve embraced mixed methods of digital manipulation to emphasize the various literal and conceptual boundaries between the settled and the unknown. To revel in the space between. Indeed, half of the aesthetics presented in “All the Pretty Horses”, “Uh-huh, Honey” and “A Spreading Redness in the West” are the result of working and exploiting the fault and vulnerability inherent in data.
Indeed, glitching and hacking at the underlying code to subvert the integrity of image files produces an unknown. Juxtaposed next to traditional, un-glitched representational imagery, we have reached the aforementioned boundaries.
True to the show’s theme, this work is not the exhaustion of all possibilities of what the Southwest is and can be. Rather, it is the product of my perspective, akin to publishing translated poetry; it’s the curated, conceptual cross-section of my experiences.
