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Group Show, Philadelphia Photo Arts Gallery
Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Enjoy the view: I, Must, Confess, I, Still, Believe: Six Thousand Google Results (2010) uses photographs as a linguistic tool. Words “I, Must, Confess, I, Still, Believe” were googled resulting in over 6000 results. The found images were presented in proportion to the size of their digital files, individually cut and pinned to a wall and organized in sentence form. Description of the work was also googled: The Banal, the quotidian, the obvious, the common, the ordinary, the infra-ordinary, the background noise, the habitual? [...] How are we to speak of these common things, how to track them down, how to flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they are mired, how to give them meaning, a tongue, to let them, finally, speak of what it is, who we are.* Through being photographed, something becomes part of a system of information, fitted into schemes of classification and storage which range from the crudely chronological order of snap shots sequences pasted in family albums to the dogged accumulations and meticulous filing needed for photography’s uses in weather forecasting, astronomy, microbiology, geology, police work, medical training and diagnosis, military reconnaissance and art history.* The ordinary and the rare, their interconnectedness and interchangeability.*
