Artist statement
...
"And indeed there will be time
To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"
Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair
[They will say: "How his hair is growing thin!"]
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin
[They will say: "But how his arms and legs are thin!"]
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?
..."
Extract from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
By T.S. Eliot (1888-1965).
In "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism", T.S. Eliot proposes that poetry may "make people see the world afresh, or some new part of it. It may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and an evasion of the visible and sensible world."
In this series of photographs entitled "In a Minute There is Time" after Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", my intention was to try to discover the poetic beauty that lays hidden in everyday moments.
In the familiarity and banality of the everyday, in the repetition of our activities and routines, we can become immune to the beauty in the world that surrounds us and as a result feel alienated from our cities. In rediscovering these simple moments of beauty that we often overlook, we can reconnect to our senses and overcome the distance that sometimes separates us from our environment. Those rare but significant instants, sometimes only lasting seconds but symbolising a lifetime or encapsulating a universe of meaning can be discovered and momentarily appreciated.
In my work, I have always been preoccupied with exploring the world that exists between photography and painting. In this series of photographs, I have tried to capture some moments from the seconds, minutes, hours of everyday life, glimpses that I have found evocative. I have used simple mechanical photographic devices to present to the viewer my impressions of the scenes I have found, impressions which can become starting points for reflections on life and the city.
"And indeed there will be time
To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"
Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair
[They will say: "How his hair is growing thin!"]
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin
[They will say: "But how his arms and legs are thin!"]
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?
..."
Extract from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
By T.S. Eliot (1888-1965).
In "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism", T.S. Eliot proposes that poetry may "make people see the world afresh, or some new part of it. It may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and an evasion of the visible and sensible world."
In this series of photographs entitled "In a Minute There is Time" after Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", my intention was to try to discover the poetic beauty that lays hidden in everyday moments.
In the familiarity and banality of the everyday, in the repetition of our activities and routines, we can become immune to the beauty in the world that surrounds us and as a result feel alienated from our cities. In rediscovering these simple moments of beauty that we often overlook, we can reconnect to our senses and overcome the distance that sometimes separates us from our environment. Those rare but significant instants, sometimes only lasting seconds but symbolising a lifetime or encapsulating a universe of meaning can be discovered and momentarily appreciated.
In my work, I have always been preoccupied with exploring the world that exists between photography and painting. In this series of photographs, I have tried to capture some moments from the seconds, minutes, hours of everyday life, glimpses that I have found evocative. I have used simple mechanical photographic devices to present to the viewer my impressions of the scenes I have found, impressions which can become starting points for reflections on life and the city.
In a Minute There is Time 01
2002, C-type print, 76.2 x 50.8cm
