tilted appearance
Pursuing truth through art making has often felt the wrong way to swim. Going upstream costs energy, yet has the potential to spawn new life. The scientific method always came easier to me but art (particularly analogue forms) deny pure reproducibility. Discipline and habit of study tend to produce innovation, such as the psychological art of photography. Art is always a psychological pursuit in that how subjects, forms and symbols are read and amalgamated within the mind of the reader or viewer.
Measuring the value or insight offered in visual art has become a taboo no one wants to talk about for fear of seeming unintelligent by simply saying what they think. Join fear of saying what one really thinks with compelled speech and we witness a collective dumbing down (at best) and perhaps (at worst) a collective abdication of the responsibility and ability to think.
Due to these factors, I return to this image made near Lake Garda shortly after nearly blinding myself with an exercise band. My vision was saved, for heaven knows why or how, a combination of medical science and blind faith. The panes of glass framed within the image remind me of the simultaneous ability for appearance to be both illusion and truth.
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