life in pictures # 17 ~ once again, the same but different
Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 12:56PM ;)
The Face ~ Queens, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenOnce again I have come across a current NYC gallery exhibit which parallels one of my bodies of work. In this instance, it's my ongoing life in pictures body of work and that of Natan Dvir's Coming Soon. The difference between his work and mine is almost exclusively one of scale.
These recent discoveries of the-same-but-different bodies of work are starting to make me wonder and a bit crazy.
Part of my problem with others, with work based on a similar concept, beating me to the exhibition punch is the fact that I don't concentrate my picturing efforts on a single body of work. My M.O. is to keep quite a number of my bodies of work in play, picturing wise, over an extended period of time, building the body rather slowly. Whereas most of the others tend to dedicate themselves to a single picturing pursuit.
That written, there is absolutely nothing wrong with building a single body of work as one's main endeavor. Perhaps I need to pick a single body of work on which to concentrate in a determined, focused and exclusive manner.
Reader Comments (1)
It is certainly true that your images and his images have SOME similarities, but your images would not fit into his work, and his images would not fit into your work.
Isn't it hard to find work that is truly unique? It seems to me that often the work of one artist is analogous to the work of another artist (intentional or not).
You know, great minds think alike?