Listening

listening consists of a series of large-scale color photographs based on the interiors of an octogenarian neighbor’s home in Indiana.  Originally built in 1947, the house had been re-decorated in 1963 and then forgotten in time. Nothing was moved from its place, not even an ashtray. Frozen and still, it became a mausoleum of the Sixties.  The solitude spoke of depression childhoods, war and postwar prosperity and all the changes these extremes brought. 

My mother, when she was eighty-two, asked me to explain MTV, as the rapid changes of the visual frames were incomprehensible to her.  Her brain could not process the visual information with such rapidity.  I chose to play with this phenomenon through a series of color photographs that are digitally linked into long and thinly shaped narratives, consisting of multiple images mounted on aluminum.  The juxtaposition of the two generations speaks of the acceleration of the electronic age in contrast to an older generation’s growing quiescence.  It also makes one wonder what our children will invent that we in turn will be unable to process.

Prints available through the Craig Krull Gallery:  310-828-6410