Glance 2233

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Comment by Resident Curator on March 24, 2014 at 9:45pm

Curator’s Comments:

 

This photographic series is strangely evocative in that the subject matter is highly abstracted and often blurred.  While some figurative elements come into sharper focus, there appears to be a curvilinear distortion, as if viewing the subject from an extreme angle.  As the titles suggest, it’s as if catching site of a figure in one’s peripheral vision, at a quick glance, rather than through normal depth of field. I detect skin and fine haired surfaces along a ridged scar in the second work, which is slightly macabre.   The extreme cropping is vaguely unsettling. This particular piece, however, # 2233 is more softly alluring in its ambiguity of image.  I enjoy the radiating warm tonality that emanates from the main diagonal crease, and the delicately modeled pattern on the second half of the cleaved form. The composition is economic but remains very humanistic. The works that contain a more identifiable facial portrait have a decidedly different character.  Still spectral in their amorphous shadowed edges, there is less a feeling of detachment as fleeting recognition in personal identity.