Formlessness as Such
Two fundamental premises structure this series: formal regularity and content. These triptychs were formed with certain regulations. We view reality from multiple perspectives that unify into a singular experience. I photographed scenes from multiple, equable, perspectives that as a finished work create one cohesive and new viewing experience. I then culled them into a fragmented composition in which the images engage in syncopation with one another and the negative space surrounding. These elements combined lend to a multiplicity of experiential illusions when viewing the work. No one perspective is privileged.
Second was the content ready at hand in South Baldwin County, Alabama. The landscape is scarred with agricultural fields that inspired the formal criteria that I first composed in my sketchbook. The ecology of the area that many flora and fauna call home, which I grew up in, shifts as the wave of capitalism ensues. As the land was first cleared for agriculture and pine plots, the land is now being sold for commercial building. These are portraits of the agrarian calling and responding to a fast growing society and its need for sustainable agricultural products. As crops become less profitable to grow, the land gives way to house the agrarian’s new ecosystem.
I leave these images as homage, to the formlessness of thought ushered in by horizon honing. The physical form penetrates the psyche. Mocks and mimics my lumped throat of longing. As I continue introspection into the auras of my home place, what seems lucid becomes intangible like a letter from a dream. The reality I find we frequent, starts and ends with the image.