This is my work in progress statement for a new series that I am working on.
In the absence of a clear subject, what remains? Unlike the many other mediums of art, photography struggles to hold ground in the world of abstraction. Unlike the painting of CY Twombly, Georges Braque, Ellsworth Kelly and others, whose lack of definite subject matter breeds intrigue, an absence of subject in photography typical leads to an image that falls apart. In contemplating how these painters approach their canvases It occurred to me that lack of a clear subject in a photo does not actually lead to the dissemination of the image, rather this transforms the picture into a study of formalism. In this perspective, the viewer begins to see as the camera sees because of the photographer, not the other way around. Much how we see through our peripheral vision; these are the images that exist on the outside of the formal subject driven images. This is what the camera sees in its Peripheral vision.
