Last week when I went to go see Libby’s work in the Satellite Space I couldn’t help but notice the multiple pictures of the same building in the next exhibit. The pictures were of “re-inhabited Circle K’s” taken by Paho Mann. This was a very clever idea for another sequence project. The pictures themselves weren’t very interesting but after reading the artist statement and understanding his purpose they became quite humorous. What I mean by that is what these shop owners decided to make these places. For example one is a trashy looking market whose main window advertisement is beer, and then you have a tuxedo retail store. I like how he has the same horizon line in all the photos and all the pictures in his sequence follow a similar composition.
He also had a few larger pieces of work that were a compilation of photographs meticulously put together to make a grand presentation. The majority were atmospheric perspectives of subdivisions with cookie cutter houses. The most interesting though was the one of a two-story house. The angle was really nice, and from a distance the color scheme of all the pictures were appealing to the eye. When you got closer to this collage of photographs it’s hard not to notice a repetition of pictures. Now it’s totally understandable because of the size of this work that he would need to repeat some of the photographs, but if I were Paho Mann, I would have taken the more challenging approach and made the composition without any repeating work. I think it would have made the work a bit more unique and somewhat harder to imitate. Overall I think this presentation was successful and well thought out.
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