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Coming to my senses/Riprendere conoscenza

Photographs - 2004-2007
lunapark associazione culturale via trebbia 1 roma / 19 - 30 April 2007

The playfulness in these works comes from that joy, intended as childlike fun, that I experience in discovering, making and choosing the visual relationships that work together almost in the face of the obvious disparity between the subjects; out of focus images to represent something as structured as a calendar, hard paving stones and soft shadows or filthy city streets and words of Love, playing with contrasts. The series format creates an interaction with the diverse elements, offering a form of communication/dialogue between the viewer, the pieces and my intentions.

This presentation of visual objects/situations that apparently have no connection is about finding even the smallest similarity or relationship, to force a visual understanding. This constraining of subject makes the images work together as a whole in each series, and the attention or scrutiny logically gives each separate piece an importance and monumentality that they would not have if seen in their real life context.

The three distinct parts of the exhibition are all ways in which I look at the world around me and they all show a search for a personal order. In other words, defining my own limitations within which I can express myself, understand myself and set myself goals.

Through each series, mistakes, shadows, and now photographs of words, by using the super-realism that can be seen through a viewfinder I am forced to confront reality’s layers, surfaces and messages.

It is interesting for me to see these three series mounted together in the same space. I see how much they play off each other and realize how important and constant this element of play is in my work. I enjoy the relationships that logically (or illogically) come about when looking at images that are related and the viewer is stimulated to find their own similarities, differences and meanings in them.

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” Carl Gustav Jung

Susan Kammerer April 2007