I've been reading a book of essays by William Carlos Williams lately. There's one line from "The Simplicity of Disorder" (which I posted on my own blog a few days ago) that springs to mind when I look through and read the stuff on here:
"I think these days when there is so little to believe in——when the old loyalties——God, country, and the hope of Heaven——aren't very real, we are more dependent than we should be on our friends. The only thing left to believe in——someone who seems beautiful."
I really like that line. I think it neatly summarises a particular time and place in the world, not just for my own social contingent, but also more generally for a certain type of politically/culturally disenfranchised, or disengaged, youth or 'other'.
Would you perhaps agree that Williams' sentiments are equally applicable to The Zeroes as they are to my own photographs? I'm interested to know, as, to my knowledge, we both operate in the realms of the autobiographical - the social scape - and generally an arena wherein the plight of the individual group demands precedence, and the context of everything else (e.g. socio-political landscape) is, while equally significant, largely inferred by the actions of the individual.
I've been reading a book of essays by William Carlos Williams lately. There's one line from "The Simplicity of Disorder" (which I posted on my own blog a few days ago) that springs to mind when I look through and read the stuff on here:
ReplyDelete"I think these days when there is so little to believe in——when the old loyalties——God, country, and the hope of Heaven——aren't very real, we are more dependent than we should be on our friends. The only thing left to believe in——someone who seems beautiful."
I really like that line. I think it neatly summarises a particular time and place in the world, not just for my own social contingent, but also more generally for a certain type of politically/culturally disenfranchised, or disengaged, youth or 'other'.
DeleteWould you perhaps agree that Williams' sentiments are equally applicable to The Zeroes as they are to my own photographs? I'm interested to know, as, to my knowledge, we both operate in the realms of the autobiographical - the social scape - and generally an arena wherein the plight of the individual group demands precedence, and the context of everything else (e.g. socio-political landscape) is, while equally significant, largely inferred by the actions of the individual.