more photoness.

well, you big poo head, i *thought* i left that post as a draft...i wasn't done with it yet, so some more explanation was forthcoming. i don't know if i actually feel the same way as i did when i wrote it. can i come back to that later? i want to talk about your artist statement.

(oh, btw, i am rewriting my thesis proposal tonight to send to my committee for comments, so i will post that here later tonight, and would appreciate some suggestions or feedback)

ok, so. this is the first thing that caught me:

"The viewer of the work, on the other hand, has a broader view of the scenario unfolding, much more than I can understand from my limited perspective."

so, taking from the first paragraph, are you saying the viewer is the position of god? omniscient, i mean...they are getting the whole picture, while your senses are limited by desire (desire is suffering) and your own ego. that paragraph actually clarified a lot for me, though it was stuff i knew about your work, it was nice to see it so succinct and in one place.

"My work incorporates sculpture, installation, and performance, although the final product is a photograph."

knowing this (the process verses the final product) i think it's important to have sort of documentation of the process. maybe displaying part of the "set" with the photos? it seems a waste to not give some weight to that process and its physical results. there is something evocative about the realtionship between, say, seeing a play, and then walking onto an empty set where the play was, that was occupied by the actors.

there's a lot of theatre practice going on here...i wish i knew where to tell you to go to get more information on that. sadly, i left acting far too long ago to be of any use on that front.

"I use photography to flatten out space and further heighten this visual ambiguity. The limit of the a photograph’s frame is an opportunity to play with its boundaries. A form can be out of the picture but its shadow projected and layered onto forms within the frame."

i know you said you've had problems with photographers looking at your work, but i think this statement above is the best and first line of defense as to why you are using photography in particular. it makes perfect sense, you're not just taking a photo to take a photo, for a photo to be full of its photoness...there's a specific aim and reason. yes!

more later.

ps. so haha, you're just another nekkid person on the interwebs...