I Have More Baking To Do
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© Greg Wasserstrom
Shortly after moving to New York, I came to the realization that I know a lot less about what I’m doing than I thought. I have, for essentially four years been trying to figure out how to express, in pictures, a particular view of America. And I don’t mean the kind of “view” you get from a roadtrip across the Southwest or a trek though small Southern towns or maybe some valley in Yellowstone somewhere. By “a particular view of America,” I mean my view, America literally as I see it, right now, from where I’m standing, at this very moment. I didn’t realize that’s what I’ve been trying to do until fairly recently. I inititally viewed photography as a way to break away from the politics that I’ve been immersed and fixed by since essentially the time I developed the ability to think my own thoughts. As it turns out, there’s really no doing that. If I’m going to make interesting work it needs to be about something I can speak on with some authority. The snag here though is that even though I offer up wat I view as essentially same commentary at least 10 times every day in words, and that those words have even attained a certain market value, I haven’t yet been successful in doing this cohesively in pictures. It devolved to the point where I was basically just posting things to the internet, and now even that has slowed to a trickle. So it’s time to start fresh and approach this thing in a whole new way. I’s so quiet over here because I’m trying to figure out just what that’s going to be all about.
January 30th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
translating interesting thoughts in interesting pictures related to those thoughts is the great challenge we all face. i totally agree with new beginings and with rethinking all over and over, is a great way to go to a deeper lever with the work ,
February 2nd, 2008 at 11:27 am
i know the feeling.
February 6th, 2008 at 2:32 am
Yes, yes! I understand completely. For fodder, I recommend this essay:
http://www.imageandnarrative.be/mediumtheory/bramieven.htm
though there are so many on that website that are so wonderful. Definitely keep posting, even the mistakes, fumbles, and curious explorations.
Cheers
February 25th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
“Self-expression is more or less unavoidable. What you have to worry about is making the self you express more interesting, more intelligent, more knowledgeable, more alert.”
John Szarkowski / Hilton Als “Looking At Pictures” page 114
Grand Street 59 - Winter 1997
April 16th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
you are cookie dough. is good. is true. me too.