This Side of Everywhere
In this project, I am presenting images that refer to non-contextual locations, which lack grounding for reference beyond the generic "everywhere". They are placeless and thus empty cups in which to impart the aesthetic values of the medium. Investigation into the idea of place, and our cognitive ability to reference a place to a location in space relies in contrast and comparison of details, and memory of interaction with the place. Without these, places are reduced to their appeal to our senses and our impression of that. Using the medium to divorce these points in space from their contextual locations, and using our cognitive recognition of the banal world at large to appeal to familiarity because of similarities we have experienced, this project seeks to create a visually experiential response to the graphic and formal nature of the arrangements, which then appear monumental when taken out of context. This contradicts the response we might have had to the actual point in space and its mundane situation of our common areas in our common surroundings.
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