Semantics

While the Perception exhibit is on view at Gallery UAF I thought I would try something new and use this space as a sort of online gallery to share the work with a broader audience. Each day for the remainder of the show check back here for a new work from the exhibit.



















Semantics

"In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever, it photographs. The 'anything whatever' then becomes the sophisticated acme of value."
-Barthes

*Each piece in the exhibit is a 5x7 digital archive print and is printed as an edition of ten. Please contact for purchasing information.

Perception

We are said to live forever in memory, yet our own memories will inevitably fail us and time will rob us of ourselves, our life becoming a series of fleeting memories whose validity will evade us. Whether consciously or subconsciously accepting of this, human nature often compels us to reconstruct our understanding of our personal histories through the photographs ability to suspend time. We photograph what we cherish about life, what we deem worthy of remembering and what provides a participatory sense of who we are.

Perception examines photography’s ability to reconstruct emotions associated with memory in order to give them the opportunity to become shared experiences. Whether these remembered experiences and emotional responses are authentic or a fabrication they allow us to re-experience and construct intimate notions of self and each other.

Perception will be on view along with works by Verl Adams and Blake Palmer March 16th to April 13th at Gallery UAF located at 230 South 500 West Suite 120 in Salt Lake City.