Luke Stettner: The Image as Unnecessary Hierarchy
“What we cannot speak, we must pass over in a meaningless system of categorization.”
“What we cannot speak, we must pass over in a meaningless system of categorization.”
At its surface, the need to stand, to rise, and to disembowel the state looks permeable
There was something nearly satisfying in the midst of tying his sister’s best friend to a board of broken glass
“I always imagine that it looks like a whisper would look if a whisper would wail.”
So goes the hysterical re-invention of hysteria by Javier Viver
I wanted very badly to rally the troop of self against THE MACHINE…
“Fuck, he’s going to take up my time telling me about how he’s been a photographer since the 60’s…”
Charlotte Lybeer’s “Epidermis II” for APE is not about teletubbies or suicide, but it is about the veil or a practice of shrouding oneself called “Zentai”, which like all things post-taboo seems to be Japanese in origin.
@ Brad Feuerhelm “That is just the impatient me waiting for my own teeth to fall out as I doubt I will ever find the bouffant that defines me”. I stood sifting through the remnants of somebody else’s life, the precipice correlated somewhere between the footnote of commerce and an inability to understand […]
”The whole city though I am only in a neighborhood seems capable of changing its face as I am carried through it offering possibilities for omni-architectural and urban planning on rails”. I have this repeating dream in which I am in an urban environment not dissimilar to Berlin. The buildings have a late nineteenth century […]
@ Irina Ionesco “For the most part, my characters are portrayed in some sort of deep concentration resulting in my personal interpretation: melancholy dream – expectation – prayers and enigmas”. Irina Ionesco is a name that has not been touched upon by photography enthusiasts much since the 1990s. Yet, her work has a strong influence […]
The images remind me of the bulk of 70’s American photography. There is a bit of Arbus, Friedlander, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, Bill Owens.