Fish Story
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OX: CIAS Senior Show 2007 was a created by myself and good friend Susan Morelock to give graduating senior art students the opportunity to share their creations with not only the RIT community, but also Rochester at large. Inspired from the thought that artistic endeavors are more important and signifigant to an art student than simply recieving a diploma, OX was the most memorable moment from commencement weekend.
To supplement the exhibition that was juried by RIT's finest faculty members, an exhibition catalogue was created as a keepsake for the show. In a way, it served as an art school yearbook.To view a pdf of the catalogue click
here.
June | 2008
Back from the Pause, to Begin trip! I have recently moved into a new house and resumed working at the Maine Media Workshops as a teaching assistnat for the summer. I also have copious amounts of film to sort through. It is going to be a busy summer.
May | 2008
Alongside good friend David Wright I traveled around the United States and Mexico to visit the 14 of the 15 selected photographers for Pause, to Begin. The trip was fabulous as it lasted all month long. We met, interviewd, and photographed all of the wonderful photographers selected to be in this year's edition of PTB. To read more about the trip and PTB in general, visit our blog.
April | 2008
With the wonderful help of Cig Harvey, David Wright and I have chosen the 15 photographers for the first year of Pause, to Begin. Beginning May 1st the two of us will be driving around North America to meet and interview each selected photographer. Follow along on our journey at pausetobegin.com.
March | 2008
Five photographs from the series In Water have been published in the Dutch magazine titled Jaarmagazine.
For several months, I ritualistically created photographs loosely based on my visual life. In order to make new, different, and exciting photographs I gave myself one specific limitation, a set working distance. The distance I chose was my awkwardly tall height of 79 inches. In one sense, every image is a portrayal of that height, but since the pictures are neither awkward nor representative of my tallness I no longer see them as such.
The photographs have become about living in a college house and then vacationing in Nantucket. There is a difference in the houses that is vast in style, size, cleanliness, location, and class. To me the photographs feel like they belong in the same story because the images are treated in the same manner visually by paying attention to light, color and composition all while trying to make the best photographs I could form the same distance over and over again. I also think that I was searching and looking for the same feeling in both places, a sense of home; I believe that I found it in parts of both places.
Now, the most interesting part of the photographic journey that I made with these images is that my height became insignificant. The vertical height was turned horizontal and it lost all emphasis when the context of my height was absent from the photographs. Due to this near lack of context, these photographs feel more embellished than the images I want to make. In a way the photographic story is my own little lie; the tall tale has been turned into a beautiful photograph.
All photographs appear in the book Fish Story, hand-bound in a limited edition of ten. The book is printed on Innova Smooth Cotton Duo paper. Contact me to purchase the book.
