I am a window shopper
A lover of reflected images mostly on glass…
Magic Realism: In, On, Through
At first glance, what meets your eye is not the only story in my photographs. After another look you will
begin to see the layers, the nuances, the oddities, and the treasures I have discovered in a single
moment.
I am standing outside of a window separating me from what is inside. It might be a mannequin, the
Virgin Mary, or bedding in a home goods store. On the surface of the window there is another image
which might be the street behind me, or a passing pedestrian. These two images, the one inside the
window and the one on the surface of the glass marry onto a single plane, providing an entirely new
visual experience.
These Magic Realism: In, On, Through photographs are, with small alterations, precisely what I have seen
and captured in one click of the shutter. The photographs are neither created in Photoshop nor in
Artificial intelligence.
Hannah Hoch, although a collage artist, uses space and juxtaposition that speak to me. The tension in
her work is somewhat like my own. Her use of space is familiar. I think that my method of anchoring
images onto the photos’s surface resembles the visual vocabulary of the Dadaists, Kurt Schwitters
and Juan Gris.
