The Scattering of Place
I continue to organize my work here to explore the emotional and rhythmic similarities of disparate subjects. Or perhaps this just another stab at ‘random,’ an effort to capture the erratic scattering of place, insight and feeling from which we otherwise distill coherence, meaning and purpose—the sharing of images of uncertain weight and meaning but striving to reveal their commonalities.
I also continue to experiment with AI to develop images of ambivalence and mystery, despite the conundrum of AI intelligence. Unexpected and unintended outcomes are to be expected.
Self-indulgent or not, my work is ultimately about feeling, not restraint and good order. As Frederick Nietzsche writes in The Birth of Tragedy, it is in our very nature to “take delight in the immediate apprehension of form; all forms speak to us; there is nothing indifferent, nothing superfluous.” Such is the plasticity of self, image and story.
Ultimately, my work is the finely edged present laid against the vastness of time.
