Graham Macindoe: Excavation. Internalization. Elevation.
“There is some nostalgia, certainly. Music often shares a correlating value to memory, which leads easily to nostalgia. It is no different with photography”
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“There is some nostalgia, certainly. Music often shares a correlating value to memory, which leads easily to nostalgia. It is no different with photography”
“As we ponder the future fugue states of Europe, the diplomatic inadequacy of the New West and Russia, questions arise”
“And beyond Fathi’s unique picture album that circles around Pauli and the so-called “Pauli Effect” the publication captures all the facets that finally determine a notable bookwork”
“When is an artwork finished? Are the World Trade Centers only finished when the planes sink into their steel bellies? Can we assume Babylon’s work at an end when pneumatic drill erases their façade?” We spend long hours illustrating our human form. We seek a representation of ideals and we look backwards over the canons […]
“The bucolic west is no longer a benign horizon in which to measure the imagination and fantasy of pioneer aspirations”
“Finally, a “Eureka Moment”- the image I “took” belongs to Martin Parr, the Godfather of Gaudy. I know this not because I have any of his books or any desire to devote much attention to his work, I know this because I have the Internet”
“you think…”Well Sweetheart if you don’t want to hear this …Why the fuck are you here in the first place? Go forth and make your way towards the golden honey pot of money and museum exhibitions, you terrible fuck”. Don’t let me stop you or waste my time with your bullshit. Seriously”
“This symbology, this fervent fabric of decline is screened within the book, but it is subtle and perhaps that is why, it is doomed, like human behaviour and meaning, to the sidelines of a genetic and shared understanding of images. “
“The glitch is worshipped and the dream weave of the matrix spews forth an undeniable feeling of dissolve”
“I mean corpse fat and soap, I remember the nazis doing something like that…is that why the women wash their clothes in it while the naked children, with their distended bellies, watch?”
“We have inherited a way of understanding events and time through images or are allowed to fashion our own prognosis of the interpretation of linear elements by looking inward and at the spaces between images…”
“It is often confusing being an American. We are a country deeply concerned with our personal histories, yet there is something peculiar about all of this in so much as that it seems to deflect from what we actually are: American”