Post Cards and Statements!

Picked up my postcards for the Passing Strangers exhibit this November.. They look good for what I paid for them.. I couldn't afford the high quality cards that the Trinity Gallery paid for for my last show but I am happy with what I got from Staples..

Its not a real gallery that I am showing my work at this time. The Cafe Ole is a cafe chain in Downtown Trenton. The owner has wall space available and allows a different artist to present his or her work each month. The artist is responsible for everything from hanging to promoting the show. A lot of work but the pay off is that there is no commission to pay if a piece sells.

The statement:

My original intention was to express an innate desire to capture my subjects as I had originally found them. To present my viewers with images depicting unknown individuals who had evoked my artistic curiosity by seizing both my attention and imagination during my travels.

However, after reviewing my images for the umpteenth time, it occurred to me that I wasn’t actually photographing these wonderful individuals solely for their unique character and mystery as I originally thought or believed. I was, in fact, documenting myself.

The formation of an identity is a life long process and it is through these fleeting moments with complete strangers that I am able to see more clearly the complexity of my own identity both culturally and artistically. The individuals who I had chosen to capture with my camera are those who, in one way or another, reflected elements of my own uncharted and developing self. For me they represent my undiluted curiosity of the world around me, a gambit of emotions often felt at once and a constantly developing perspective. I see myself in Passing Strangers