squares² # 3 ~ common beauty / beauty in common
Monday, September 17, 2012 at 12:13PM ;)
squares² ~ all together, in my mind and eye • click to embiggenAs mentioned, I have ruminated for quite some time - measured in years, not months or days - my propensity for discursive promiscuity, picture making wise. Most of that time inside my head was spent thinking, not about my picturing MO, but rather what to do, presentation wise, with all of those discursive pictures. While I have half a dozen or so referent focused bodies of work, those bodies of work taken all together are minuscule, # of pictures wise, relative to the now 4,000+ and rising # of pictures which, IMO, fall into the discursive promiscuity picture making realm of things.
That written, the solution to my presentation quandary would seem to be at hand ...
While I have always recognized that the best of my discursive, but nevertheless vision unified, pictures would need to be printed and displayed in a presentationally cohesive manner, the exact manner of doing so has, until now, escaped me. However, having essentially boxed myself into a corner by writing and talking about the notion of unified vision as evidenced across a diverse body of pictures, I had to get down to brass tacks and cash the check my mouth was writing.
As a result of that effort, I have arrived at a plan of creating a series of square prints, each with 4 seemingly unrelated, referent wise, square pictures (all printed on a single sheet of paper), or, to put it another way - squares². Each squares² print will be created in 4 sizes - 24"×24" (edition of 20), 36"×36" (edition of 10), 48"×48" (edition of 4), and 60"×60" (edition of 1).
The initial plan is to create, over time, multiple 20 squares² picture collections. How many collections? Who knows. I have enough pictures to make 200 20 squares² picture collections but that's not gonna happen. However, the number 10 sounds like a nice round doable number.
I am actually rather excited about this project simply because it's all coming together / starting to make sense.
Reader Comments (1)
See Good picture making is about focus (March 2, 2012)
So maybe this is the Lytro approach… shoot first, then focus later?
John