Excited to be in the mix of Oranbeg Press’ latest publication and online exhibition Net 2.8: What Will Suffice, juried/curated by photographer, writer & publisher Tim Carpenter. A big fan of Oranbeg Press’ consistent creative mark in the independent photography & publishing world, it’s an honor to have images chosen based upon the exhibition’s great prompt:
In one of his more well-known poems, “Of Modern Poetry,” Wallace Stevens describes:
“The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice.”
In pre-modern times, the artist could use the symbols of mythology or religion to provide readymade meaning. But now there is no given, nothing waiting around to be discovered.
The philosopher Simon Critchley writes: “The only light with which we might view objects had to be kindled by us, by our activity.”
Similarly, John Gossage says, “I find the things that I photograph, in the way that I photograph them, to be beautiful.” It’s the creative activity (the intelligence, the imagination) of the maker – not the subject matter – that makes a picture sufficient.
The publication will be released at the upcoming NY Art Book Fair (9/21 – 9/23/2018)
