One of the things that I consider to be most important of what I took away from our first Gallery Journ was the fact that, no matter what quality a photo is, poor or excellent, it is very possible that some gallery somewhere holds an interest in showing it. One of the few experiences I had on this trip that I truly got excited about was seeing the lightboxes of Ted Victoria. These pieces took simple objects, such as more light, and even living creatures and placed them inside of a light projection. The image projected is displayed on the wall and, for the work with the sea monkeys,constantly changing dependent on the location of the creatures, or, for the projector with the light bulbs, replicating one light source with another. These ideas interested me in their eloquence and simplicity, but also because the object, the image, and the process were all displayed as one and were a part of the piece.
Of course, upon further discussion of the piece in class, I realized that these are just as pretentious as any of the other pieces, as they are, for some reason, available for purchase, as if they are desirable objects to have in your den. This jaded attitude carried over to some of the other galleries, where it became apparent that several gallery owners had about as much opinion based on the works they were selling as the frames containing them did. However, both this disillusionment and Ted Victoria's successful work led me to draw the conclusion, that maybe a photo doesn't need to be completely elegant and clean and crisp to produce results. In this way, combined with my own interest in taking photographs through glass, led me to the following images.
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