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Works really well Dewald with sound text and images all adding to the sensory experience. Only thought I had was that I might have wanted to linger on each slide a little longer. In video format of course you as the artist/photographer decides what the viewer sees when and for how long….so you are much more in control. I’ve been looking at some of Alan Sekula’s slide shows which he mixes with texts panels and some large gallery prints. He has this idea that photography fits in a space somewhere between painting (the gallery prints), cinema (the video/slideshow) and literature (the texts). He combined all three into some of his work. I am studying his Fish Story as part of my YOP critical review.

  • Dewald – loved it. Your opening image sets the scene for me. Each time I look at it, it appears as if I am looking through the windows of a train/bus which may be travelling the ring road. Your adjectives prompt the question Why? (Why this adjective) for the scene – some I get other I did not. Powerful!

  • Great work Dewald. My project for YOP centres around the idea of The Periphery, areas around cities or commercial areas. Some images are along the lines of what I had in mind for parts of the series -perhaps I’ll have to change tack a bit to keep mine original 🙂
    Inspirational stuff, well done.

  • I like this a lot Dewald – especially how the banal everyday-ness of many of the the scenes gives way to this mysterious otherness. Even though there is sound, some of the pictures seem very quiet and still. Quite haunting.

  • I’m amazed just how different the series is when presented like this from other formats eg on you website. It just goes to show the power of context and production values in creating the overall effect. Great stuff and it offers much food for thought.

  • nice… 😎
    I do like the way disjointed (or at least not always obvious) captions work here. Always had you tagged as one of the shining lights…
    Yeah, got some work to do before next March.

  • Hi everyone, pardon late reply, VPN trouble…
    Thanks!
    Keith, I was watching your recent Hawaii videos recently, and what you say makes perfect sense… It does feel a little fast if the purpose is screen display. This video was part of the experiment process, and was created to be rear-projected onto a soft hazy plastic sheet 3m high and 4m wide, with the viewer being ‘confined’ within 2m distance from the ‘screen’… The timing and video length was based on personal experience of time between walking into a video display and getting bored, and I thought of having each viewer seen the whole loop…
    The adjectives and other text in the video refers to more personal connections to the work, as it grew from a slightly more documentary project to a personal exploration of space as metaphor… I was wondering if having seen the artist statement might have put things in place a little more, but at the same time I am not sure.
    Pete, yes, there is such a difference between the different ways of presentation – online / prints / projection..
    Rob, your comment to a shining light isn’t referring to my hairstyle, is it?

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