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This piece feels really goofy to me. It's nothing like I expected. I think it's because this image almost more than any other looks so different than it did during the shoot. During the shoot I could see the sculpture in the context of the entire site- the expanse of the metal, the sky, the gravel parking lot where my car was- and in this shot it becomes so dense with information and much more abstract that I imagined.
We've shown the images to a few dozen people now, and this one gets a really positive response, I find myself listening really intensely to what they have to say about it- I'm hoping they'll help me figure this one out.
I think I like it, it's just not at all how I imagined it would look. I think that's really the best part of collaborating- seeing things in an entirely new way- and making work that you wouldn't make otherwise. Since the sculptural set up on this one is so simple I wouldn't mind taking it to a few new sites.
