In
an Instant
Archival Pigment Prints
24" x 60"
2007
Exhibited
@ Rhys Gallery
September 5- October 5, 2007
Echoing
the click of a snapshot collecting an instant, these images create a kind of
movie clip that abbreviates a story into a single one of its epic moments. The
process of creating these images goes through many sequences of digital, analog,
miniature, and large formations to examine different modes and experiences of
scale, fragmentation, and mediation. Each phase within the work alters the one
before it, while still retaining its core. The process is very much like storytelling.
It transforms with each generation of describing, and the narrative sheds some
of its parts as it collects others, allowing memory to reshape it.
The images in this body of work are of uprooted and shifting topographies that
reflect the anticipation, the event, or the aftermath of momentous change. Depicted
through severe forces, disasters have swooshed bits and pieces out of their
ordinary places so that they exist in unfamiliar terrain. Geographic, private,
and political divides are threatened under the gray skies of a storm or the
dusty smoke clouds of an explosion. Anxiety, fear, and hope are amplified throughout
inevitably changing landscapes. Each instant of this extreme change is embedded
within panoramic cycles of destruction and regeneration.
- Evelyn Rydz, 2007