The use of imagination is a strange and difficult subject in the context of art photography. Artists like Gregory Crewdson and David Hoffos have created careers out of using the imagination of the viewer in new and interesting ways by placing oddities and strange events within their imagery. My project being presented is my own way of representing my own vivid imagination within my images, and allowing others to share in my experience.
Drawing heavily from science fiction films, horror stories and the artistic notions of the sublime I have attempted to create a set of images about something that is unknown, unrepresentable, and vaguely fascinating to the viewer and allow them, with their own notions of what the unrepresentable means to form their own conclusions to the one-image stories that are placed before them. The use of text is also prevalent in guiding the viewer and stimulating their imaginations and allowing them, with greater ease, to visualize and contextualize what they see before them.This project was ultimately brought on by my own fascinations with the world around me, allowing my mind to wander freely as I explored and photographed the physical landscape or the night sky as I so often have done before. A culmination of personal intrigue and experience with strange phenomena I felt it necessary to bring others into this realm of thought that I have found myself in. As opposed to previous projects of mine this set of images is no longer about the process of creating them, but instead is a departure from that in the sense that these images are far more about what is not represented in the imagery, and the challenge of photographing the effects of something off-frame instead of photographing something itself.
