Will He Leave His Girlfriend For Me? (I think therefore I have)
Will he leave his girlfriend for me?
This is another instance where a theme has been unconsciously developed. And I don't mean I was tapping into "psychic" phenomena. I'm discovering I have an urge to maintain some sort of visual continuity in the triptychs. For example, here each of the photographs contain the image of a man. And I had no idea I was doing that at the time. I was sitting in a cafe in Athens when I got the call - I was performing for a show at ATHICA, "Adventures in Spiritualism". The chalk drawing was taken at the cafe but I also took other photos - other patrons, items on tables, etc. The way I work, I shoot a variety of subjects until I feel one is a keeper. It's mentally noted and then I move on to make the second image. So, happy with the stick man, I then walked around the block and took many pictures: some trash in an alley, an obelisk, a lucky cat in the Chinese restaurant, and so on until I felt I had my three. So it's not like I'm seeing all of the images together and then selecting three. It would be easy to see similarities that way. I'm selecting them linearly in time and thinking - child playing, desire for good luck and hard labor. Consciously I'm not connecting the images but obviously, some part of my brain is. Now, in the context of the question, I find it significant that it moves progressively from more abstract to a more realistic rendition. From 2-D line drawing, to sculpture to live human. From the idea/concept of a man to an actuality.
Interesting post, Beth. It is an interesting set of images that point in different directions. I like the commentary on your process as well. I didn't know how you did these Oracle images.
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Interesting post, Beth. It is an interesting set of images that point in different directions. I like the commentary on your process as well. I didn't know how you did these Oracle images.
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