Details: LOOKING GLASS at the Analog Salon, Culver City.
The opening was this past Friday night and the show runs through June. Got some wonderful compliments and curiosity about my work and about Detroit.
Shana's comment on the show and upon my photos:
"For LOOKING GLASS I’ve assembled a dozen photographers whose work is in various ways made in a collaboration between the imagination and the world -- to explore ways that the camera is an expressive, fantastical, imaginative and pliable medium as well as form of document that contains evidence of external reality.
Everyone knows that a painter, for example, starts with a blank canvas and piles of pigment and that whether they makes landscape, portrait, or abstract images based in whole, in part, or not at all on external phenomenon, that the thing they make is entirely created from “nothing” or, put another way, from pure “imagination” -- whereas photography by definition involves negotiating with the external world not of your making. So how does a photographer achieve the same kind of emotional depth and psychological complexity, even approaching altered states of consciousness and perception, mediated through a “machine” -- that is the question.
.....For Sara Jane Boyers, her pictures of Detroit conflate present-day documentation with personal deep-buried memory."
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