August 3 – September 2, 2006
Something not readily verbalized at the moment – a hazy memory, a pulse of joy, a fear – affects where the camera is aimed. Stacks of photographs accumulate. Patterns emerge only later.
This selection represents a search for something not always easily identified; a certain combination of form and light echoing something intangible. It might be an empty swing, an open phone book, scrawled words that say, “I have been everywhere looking for you.”
Stacks of photographs accumulated over years suggest patterns not only of objects or specific paths through a city, but of internal journeys as well. Something not readily verbalized at the moment – a memory, a book or a song, a worry personal or political – affects where I aim the camera. Patterns emerge when sorting through those stacks.
This selection represents a search for something not always easily identified; something not always found. I looked for it in the empty swing, the open phone book, the scrawled words, “I have been everywhere looking for you.”
– Ann Kendellen
July 2006
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