Dialogue at JNG, 5.19.18

I'm struggling to discern how images- colors, subjects, values, theme...- fit within this, these current matrices; learning how to convey what my work can mean given the visual glut. A colleague recently quoted Richard Dawkins in relation to whatever it is I/we apparently do: “There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic... but we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.” Thanks Allen.

 

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B&W Issue 127: Joe Aguirre, “Your memory, your everything, and the in-between.”

"Few photographers can move so fluently between images of children, coitus, fellow commuters, or natural disasters as Aguirre. His balance of the chaotic and static, the ordinary and extreme, and our public and private selves is adroit, and expansive. Like the world’s shortest story, apocryphally attributed to Hemingway, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn,” unwritten volumes, and worlds exist before and following his shutter’s comprehension. Aguirre initiates, rewards, and places faith in our own potential for developing, and exchanging voluble, wordless stories." full text here