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Chaco Canyon Revisited, “We Can Never Speak Their Names; No More”.

Today’s headlines detail the failure of our way of life, a human system on the brink of Collapse. This is not a new story in the history of civilization. It is a story of transition from the past to the present and an uncertain future. Several years ago, I read Jarred Diamond’s book Collapse. He writes about the people of Chaco Canyon and the failure of their system, their way of life. They exhausted the natural resources that had been the source of their success as a culture. In the end the climate, the environment changed and civilization failed. Throughout the Western United States lay the ruins of the past. The people vanished as their environment no longer sustained them, from the Wupatki culture http://www.nps.gov/wupa to the Chaco Culture http://www.nps.gov/chcu they were gone.
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Transgression of Form

is a group of Digitally manipulated images of the human form that explore the transitional states of the process of their invention. Several years ago I wanted to find a new way to generate images, a method that interrupted my preconceived ideas about the figure. At the same time I wanted to create images that moved me, my feelings, my desires about the human form. I began to experiment with a Panorama Maker program that was bundled with printer software and Photoshop. My Idea was to stitch images together not to make a panorama but to make or invent new images from familiar, expected forms. I tried many different kinds of images and found that the nude human figure worked, while other images did not. Starting with various images of the figure I manipulated them in Photoshop. The simplicity of the human form allowed for the creation of complex images that did not contain too much visual information so as not to overwhelm the limits of the program. As the program reads all digital information in the image and this can result in too much visual detail. The human figure because of its smooth surface and varied positions is less complex digitally and at the same time contains complex variations created by movement that in natural to the figure itself.

Taking combinations of manipulated images I load them into the program and transform them into new images. The process is best described as random, by chance like using a slot machine. Images of chance that often do not result is successful expectations. Other times the result is an abstraction that stimulates the visual senses of memory about the human form. Images that reflect our desires of the flesh, the secrecy and beauty of our own personal experience and our expectations of intimacy with the human figure.

I leave these images untitled except by number so that you can read from them your own intimate experiences so that you can add your own titles.