Songs Against Gravity
Analogy::
a·nal·o·gy: noun.
A comparison between different things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
He was deeply in love.
When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
Songs against Gravity seems to make an analogy between disparate images. I felt compelled by forces to work in one strictly controlled direction: Horizontal.
An image in our mind has been called the imagination. If this new work presents strong visual analogies in my mind alone it is certainly one danger among many dangers.
A collection of light-filled and weightless images joined together by the laws of gravity, magnetism and memory.
By weightless I mean inconsequential images that are accumulated by a tendency to stray while otherwise engaged professionally, thematically and formally.
Occasionally made while getting ready to photograph something else-cooking camping driving or dressing.
Taken while making a photograph of a wedding of a hospital, a flower or a fox.
I stopped to take a rainbow or lightning bolt, but one was meant to be doing something else. But never-ever something better.
Weightless photographs are generated over a span of time, drifting away and disconnecting from my every day projects, assignments and commitments.
The magnetism between images resembles the energized polarities of magnets, or even between people themselves. Like water droplets brought close.
