UPDATE:
Still no luck in finding the missing image from my 1st leitmotif. However, some thoughts on the two I have been talking about. See John Divola's website to get full understanding of his work. His statement about his project, "As Far As I Could Get (10 seconds)," is wonderfully short and reveals an obvious technical component. Just click through his site a bit. Interestingly, Blind Spot leaves off the parentheses in its mention of the work, producing a more "romantic" read of his work. So in my original thoughts about Divola's & Stewart's respective projects I focused too much on my words "running away." In light of the four explosions that happened in London this morning, my view has changed. Stewart gives a homily (compared to Divola) on his images in seesaw magazine, and they do in fact deal with real/imagined states of insecurity. I saw that, and read them and Divola's work in my "Post-September 11th" mind. Running away. From fear, from the camera (surveillance), from technology, from the viewer. Today, I see these images as running to. To nature, to the natural. I realize this does not leave out my initial read as a possibility, but it forms a second part. Terror attacks seem to happen in urban areas, NYC, DC, Madrid, London. Not in rural areas. A grand oversimplification, I know. My point is that I'm amazed that the events of today have changed (actually added to) my read on an image(s). That has not happened to me in a long time. And I know I would not be aware of this change if it were not for this blog. But the people of London's calm reaction (as characterized by the American TV commentators), to this morning's events, revealed a stead fast strength, not a running away. So, the real events of today should have deepened my initial read and yet I got the opposite. Still a sense of hope.
I'm still not satisfied with this.
Also in Blind Spot: Read the essay by Tim Davis, here, click on forward. This is the first time I've seen in print an expression of one of my inner debates. This is a photograph of vs. This is a photograph about.
ORIGINAL POST:
Agent Cooper in Twin Peaks said something to the effect, "Something odd that happens once is unusual, twice is a coincidence and three times, pay attention." I'm sure somebody has the quote, I once did. The Weasel, while on 99.1 had a daily "my three songs" show where you call in and guess what the three songs had in common. A leitmotif if you will.
Well, I just saw my third image of a man running away at seesawmagazineDOTcom. The second (click on John Divola), was in Blind Spot. The first was an ad for a retrospective of xxxx work. I'll snap a picture of it soon.
So there's my first, "My Three Images," in homage to The Weasel. Now, Agent Cooper, what to do with them now that they have my attention? What's the significance of running away? Running from a camera? I realize the man in the first is not running from the camera so much as running perpendicular to it. Of course this is the one you have not seen yet. I guess I'm going to go buy Blind Spot and update this tomorrow.
CREDITS:
1st image: XXXX
2nd image: From John Divola's "As Far As I could Get," seen in Blind Spot Issue 30
3rd image: Insecurity, Ireland, 2000, Christopher Stewart, seen in seesawmagazineDOTcom
