At Clampart, Adam Ekberg made a body of work based off of capturing very specific moments in time. His photographs had an emphasis on playing with lights and illusions interacting with common objects. His prints featured subjects such as milk spilling in unique patterns, pineapples flying in the air, and paper airplanes soaring through space.
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Eclipse
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Occurrence #2
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Personally, I love his work and choice of subject matter. I think the photographs are carefully planned out. He captures these moments at incredibly precise, perfect times. In his statement he writes about "taking the mundane and making it poignant."
While Ekberg did a beautiful job of taking the mundane and making it poignant, I think that many artists try to do that and are not so successful in conveying a unique perspective. I wanted to make work that comments on the idea of commonly utilized photography, such as what you would find on instagram. I wanted to take the idea of the mundane, trying to turn it poignant, and pointing out how it falls short as an art form. In order to do this, I photographed mundane, beautiful subjects and paired them with the commentary that was happening while they were being photographed. The commentary humanizes the subjects, and gives life to the otherwise still photos.
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