Sunday, January 23, 2011

Sam Reinsel

This week I am showing a series by Sam Reinsel. The series entitled What Lies Dormant was shot with a 4x5 camera, then the negatives were distressed and printed in the darkroom.

What Lies Dormant

This series is a project I undertook to explore what separates conscious life and subconscious thought. I wanted to come to terms with what guides our decisions and emotions beyond rational thinking—at a purely emotive level, but below what we might perceptively feel every day. The ripple effect of thought and decision often has unrelated and uncontrollable repercussions, stretching far beyond what we start and pointing back past where we began. I tried to capture this through the photographic process by hand-manipulating negatives with methods I had limited control over. As a physical aesthetic, it illustrates my heavy-handed touch with a much more complex aftermath resulting from uncontrollable variables. As a visual aesthetic, the manipulations create a storyline between suggestive gestures and their fictional counterparts. Which, then, causes the other? We may never know, but the evidence and questions will always be there to suggest our own conclusions.









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