i have probably chosen the most absurdly difficult fellow student to critique/articulate/analyze, but for whatever reason his makes sense in a nonsensical way.
matt harvey's work to me is a visual representation of the human brain. matt himself compared his concept to the endless universe of the internet; i see the validity of this notion in how one link leads to another and another, how one page is a subcategory to a larger site, how some pages are "not found"....... in this i relate to the empty voids in one photograph, that then in turn contrasts to a hole that is filled in another (as if something was taken from one spot and put into the next) , or how one stone thrown into the pond (or a click of a mouse) sets off a series of ripples..........
and then i also see it as representative of the interworkings of our own thought processes. its like when you begin thinking about how you need to feed your cat and then think about buying trashbags (for the litterbox) and then think about visiting your friend who lives a block from the grocery store......then you go back to your cat and decide to brush his hair, to then realize you need to clean the hair out of your tub drain....... the cycle , recycle, and even dead ends go on and on.
maybe this did not explain anything at all. yet i almost think that is ultimately the point of matt harvey's work........
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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