May 10 2006
Links
In the last few months I have posted pictures in the gallery that I have withdrawn as quickly as I have uploaded them. A website is tempting as an instrument to show a work in progress, but I really need more time to evaluate pictures. A photograph that seems great on the day of the shoot can look quite fiendish after the first cup of coffee on the day after.
So, I decided to wait longer with new works and rather post some older material instead. In the meantime I also try to add to my links page. An easy job because I spend considerable time on the web looking for photographs to collect in digital format. Once in a while I run into something that really absorbs me, like the Atget / Rauschenberg photographs of Paris.
On rare occasions I find a site that really cracks me up. Like today; when I found the site of the ‘Paducah Artist Relocation Program‘. As an artist and a studio photographer I have always felt that I am on a lifelong relocation program. If it is not a disastrous relationship forcing me out of my house, it is the landlord who seeks profit in selling the space that I have so enthusiastically redecorated from an industrial space to a loft that suddenly charms bored managers in a midlife crisis.
So the title of this particular site made me smile and I posted the link in the Miscellaneous section. Not that I will ever go there, but it is nice to know that in a time when most artists are forced out of major cities – because the rents have become unreasonably high – there are also people turning these sad situations into Happy Projects.