found slide


my slide



"to collect photographs is to collect the world. movies and television programs light up walls, flicker, and go out; with still photographs the image is also an object, light weight, cheap to produce, easy to carry about, accumulate, store."
~susan sontag, "America, Seen through Photographs Darkly"

"time positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art."
~ sontag

these statements create a relevant insight into some of the ideas presented in my own work.
the more i read and re-read, the more i find these connections.
it is true in my own perspective; if i find an old photograph, whose original intention most likely
was not to be "art", its antiquated state that exists in the present makes it, for me, art-worthy.
of course this is problematic. this notion automatically places such images then in the
negative connotation of "instant art"...........although, if used for a good reason, maybe not.

my slide show (to be shown tuesday) is as of right now a collection, a hodge podge, a catharsis of my
creative subconscious
fragmented and scattered visual representation of inspiration to my thought processes
and artistic style.
after viewing the slides over and over again, i realize that there is something about
the spaces in between slides, the ones where nothing but a white rectangle of light is projected.
here is where memories are fabricated, lost, blurred........
collective vs selective memory
short-term memory loss.....