picture post, continuing. Abstraction has limits. Not as final as conceptual work, but there is little midgame work to be accomplished – certainly not with photographs. Realism has a silencing effect.
These ongoing, table edits include originals from prior posts. These are reminiscences of portfolio items I called Original In Color (’60s). These pictues are current.
Making across picture manners. consider this a continuation of my recent “Picture Post” .. the images in that, with this additional, are from the same situation, bounded by the same initial consideration. My prompt was the same. In that PP, I consider only the first points of making a picture. Often, that is enough. The first place is the last place.
Subjects have powers — these come from their prior treatment, by the naive consumer, the amateur producer and the needs of the driven “by any other means.”
conceptual work has no shadow; is without dimension.
These are two variations on simple structural relations. This [oct22,23] is a first rendering. Rather than make added posts, I will add to this post.
[this method has become my revised mode of postings … add to existing. ]
I won’t be writing about the “how” they are done… I am reminded of a conversation with John Orentlicher: my position on answering didn’t go well for my time at EXS. [To John Orentlicher ( or liquor) because it makes it more powerful to me and I have no interest in translating them; spending my life as a translator of rather than an author of. My first react comment to him was: That’s a question I’d expect of a student, not the head of the department. — I didn’t make tenure track… and so it goes.]
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