I knew there was a reason I fixated on that NPR story about
E.B. White and the 60th anniversary of Charlotte’s Web recently. I blathered on Facebook the other day about
the breakdown I had after searching down the exact phrasing from the last section
of the book. Talk about visceral
reactions. Man.
But I’m not going to get hung up on all that just yet. All I want to mention right now is that I had
another of my long run epiphanies today – and that phrase (above) is going to
serve as the working title for my new project-type-thing. I’ve got a fairly clear idea of how I’m going
to start getting at this, likely beginning during my upcoming residency at
Hambidge this winter. That phrase so
clearly activates (for me) so much of what I’m constantly thinking about and
working myself around in circles trying to get back to. I make work because it excites me to think about
ideas and how to apply them to the realm of the photographic, but those ideas
(for me) are always first and foremost about poignancy – and beauty and all
that crap, and of course loss and longing as well. I don’t really care if it
(poignancy) is seen as an empty word to some – it’s somehow managed to sustain
the whole of my life up to and including this very moment, so I’m going to keep
working on it.
I’ll delve more deeply into my thinking around the formal
and process strategies I have in mind for the unfolding of this work in the
coming weeks. I do know that it seems a
logical next step for me to continue sorting through the (my)
recording/documenting divide as well as recent thinking around notions of
animation. I know that I want to both
reveal and conceal the artifice in certain scenes/situations and use both
organic and man-made materials and spaces.
The image included here is from a very quick test I shot today. Just going to sit with this thinking for a
bit…
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