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Comment by Resident Curator on September 20, 2015 at 4:15pm

Curator’s Comments:

 

I marvel at the gorgeous color and seamless graphic movement in many of your photographs.  There is an arguably highly polished aesthetic that is reminiscent of product advertisement.  The Mystery Drink, for example, harnesses a seductive power of attraction.  But my eye also keeps wandering back to the more subtle work  titled Wellspring (11) for its unexpected figurative arrangement. The visual movement is slowed down considerably by comparison to the adjacent images, but what the piece may lack in captured energy, it gains in its physically intertwined complexity.  I also sense a voyeuristic entry into the space the figures share; there is an intimacy of touching and interconnectivity.  Because their faces are positioned away from the camera, the unhurried mood of quiet intersection and universality is enhanced.  While one can discern the dancers are all dressed in black, there is a black and white rhythm created by the contrast of their light skin.  The tight cropping also makes their genders slightly ambiguous, making me linger longer on the image.