Horizon Of Memory Installation Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre.
Dimensions 4MtrX3Mtr. Media Gelatin Silver and Type C prints in Photographic paper boxes, chemical bottles, shells, dried flowers, mirror, prism, found objects, body blanket and wood chair. Originally shown at the national conference of the Australian Photographic Society, Canberra ACT Aug 2000 Artists Statement from Mirages & Metaphors Exhibition Rydges Hotel Canberra Aug 2000 Mirages & Metaphors are things I know nothing about, but I do have various artistic concerns specifically in relation to the Australian Photographic Society where photography has slipped into a very narrow and besieged, bashed, victimised thing.. Day after day we see their captives, fugitives, refugees, victims, dragged out for examination and posturing over, by overbearing inarticulate amateurs. They are held like some bewildered child in front of judging machines in a system that is as visually corrupt as it is philosophically misleading and emotionally bankrupt. The membership then engage themselves in wallows, mud puddles, of self-congratulation and posture about technical worth. Photography is not about worth, proof, measurement or likeness. Photography is about enjoyment of visual ideas. Memory fickle as it is, is arguably always better than a photograph. Memory is a rubbing together of every bit of baggage one carries replete with accordant patina. It is not possible to divorce environment from sense, nor, is it possible to isolate context from emotion. Photography is charged with the trigger of memory of visual ideas, not accuracy of event. Too often people go on ad infinitum in justification of the photograph with a tautology of miscellanea which make a mockery of the image, its like raping the page. Horizon of Memory challenges the tyranny of images, this is the thousand words talking.
yeah sure did .. I was in the APS for a number of years and fopund it a stifling environment..this recreation of the original is in the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
I hope I am not an overbearing inarticulate amateur, but this, while technicaly good, to me is a shot of old photographic stuff in an empty room. I'm sure that it has some abstract meaning for you but if my mother saw this she would tell you to pick up your room. I do like the chair.
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