ARTIST STATEMENT FOR “OBVIOUS
NOT” EXHIBIT
A camera can open up new vistas to our
awareness of the world we live in. While
the camera can document the world as
we are used to seeing things, it is also
capable of rendering a world completely
foreign to our experience. While no less
“real”, such imagery introduces us to a
perspective of our world removed from
our “default” way of seeing – our
“automatic” or “conditioned” response to
our world. Imagery that introduces a
view of something familiar in an
unfamiliar way allows us to consider the
possibility that the way we’ve seen
something may be removed from the
way it really is. Perhaps such
experiences encourage us to consider
the possible limitations we impose upon
our world, others, and ourselves simply
through established patterns of
expectations or frames of reference.
Innovation and awakening have their
origin in a glimpse outside of the box we
often confine our perceptions to. This, in
part, is the purpose behind my work in
photography – and in particular – my
work within this exhibit, “Obvious Not”.
Through this work I want to take you on a
journey of fantasy and discovery. To
hopefully encourage you to experience
some of what you may have been
missing in the common things around
you.
I am fascinated with how the lens of our
mind is constantly interpreting what is
before us – shaping our experience.
Sometimes, we become unwitting
captives of our past experiences – of the
“default”. I love how children experience
the world with a beginner’s mind and see
things around them with an awe of the
moment. Allowing their imagination to
create a world of significance and
wonder in partnership with the world
around them. I think as we become
older, we get busier, accumulate more
experience, and thus rely more on that
accumulated body of experience as what
we “see”. We quickly dismiss things
once we think we recognize them and
move on. I want to encourage you to let
yourself “see” with that beginner’s mind
once again. To look for what might be
new right in front of you. Who knows
where that might lead you.
Kirk Glen Anderson
August 2006 ©
mysterious, ever changing shapes. Gazing
into the fire, what do you see?"
Signed, 2/50, framed, $375
the middle of a large stream. Captured with a
slow shutter speed and printed in negative, we
witness the form of water frozen in time but
recognize it as perhaps a landscape or
something different."
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stream. Captured with a slow shutter speed
and printed in negative, we experience water in
a completely new way."
Signed, 2/50, framed, $375
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