INSTALLATION 1: The Artist & the News

This installation is set in a special 6’x6’ formal museum style room with a framed horizontal flat screen. Viewers will have earphones for hearing sounds and music.

 

*NOTE: The Artist & the News may accompany my second, complimentary submission, The Artist & the Muse, in the same room, or stand alone. Each set of images, uniquely evocative, provocative, and stunning in its authenticity, carries its own meaning; their juxtaposition casts one to reflect on the textures of our collective times.

 

For years, I have been systematically collecting photographs* from the New York Times, some so incredible I scan and print them on canvas. Then a piece of music or an opera comes to mind.

 

As news is documented, tragic events grow long shadows, sometimes holding a still, eerie beauty for outsiders looking in. This installation examines the transformation that can occur in a single image; it is a rebirthing of media through texture and sound. A horizontal screen presents contemporary New York Times Newspaper photographs displaying the power and passion of the human spirit in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. These newsprint images are captured with the quality and majesty of the old masters paintings and I offer them for re-viewing as such.  As they roll through a gilded frame, guided by operatic melodies, their humanity is revealed as the rich, experiential bond between what occurs and what is seen.

 

*photographs:
Full-color. Mounted police dispersing protesters, Shouting Coaches, The Ukranian Revolution