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educator, music lover, writer, developing artist, new photographer...

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A POLAROID AESTHETIC, 4/08
(for the 600 polaroid show--2219 gallery, baltimore, MD)

Not only the moment in time… but the motion of time. Vertical time/ the epiphany and horizontal time/ the history. All that is bound up and found in a mili-second and all that is implied and discovered by time’s passing. Beauty-ugliness/joy-sadness/delight-horror and growth-progress/mutability/decline.

These I attempt to hold and realize in my arts—especially pictures, and pictures of pictures, since the arts organize, offer meanings and beauty, reflect upon the world in the chaos, senselessness, and sometimes meanness of the world. Thus photos reflect upon photos, another layer of artifice and significance.

Polaroids, in particular, can capture the glory, drama, or mystery of the moment—the instant film in its own revelatory process sharing dynamic beauty, passion, or pain after several elapsed moments. Put two or three Polaroids together, juxtaposed over time, and narrative meanings dance in the mind—offering the depth of the thing pictured right then (an iris, a breast, a street) and the motion of that thing in development or decline.

In the end, such pictures can show us our lives and our certain mortality.

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