A Work-in-Progress with multiple origin myths...
A fascination with and admiration for images which have an implied narrative and that invite the viewer to construct their own narrative(s).
Wanting to construct something where the narrative spans multiple images - a kind of mix'n'match puzzle of sorts
A late-found fascincation with Rothko's pure abstractions - the objects here being abstractions or something akin to 'not meaning themselves'.
A post-modern taste for meta-narrative and unreliable narrators (only some of the above may be true)
The original title of this collection, which remains a work-in-progress, was "Nothing to See".
I had in mind echoes of the stereotyped policeperson at a crime scene, standing as barrier to entry, saying "Move along - nothing to see here!".
But the very presence of the police acting as shield signals that there is something to see - and by implication something so dark and so brutal and so gruesome that the viewer should be protected from it.
The original idea for a coherent series of photos was sparked by Mari Mahr's "13 clues to a ficticious crime", although my subtitle should be "Clues to a crime about to be committed".
Also in my mind is an implied "Yet" - as in "Nothing to see ... yet". If there is underlying darkness and brutality and gore here, it is yet to come.
I am much taken by the phrase "an inconclusive iconography" (see "How to read a photograph" [Amazon link]). Perhaps it sums up what I am after - a deliberate attempt to create an 'iconography' of secondary or implied meaning. For camera, read 'act of art'. For rubber glove, read 'echoes of blood'. Perhaps.
But ... like naming the shapes in clouds and inkblots, it might be dangerous.
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