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Link Gallery . 519 East Fifth Street . Oregon Arts District
Dayton . Ohio . 45402
937.684.3505
linkgallery@gmail.com |
Joel Whitaker
I am interested in the family photograph as a physical and metaphorical thing, a piece of paper that transcends all other pieces of paper–a reliquary of memory, hope, and utopian dreams. In the photographs, entitled Referent, I look to redefine and reinvent the family snapshot and explore its greater mysteries by interacting with the image and the physical piece of paper on which it is printed. Through a varied method of mark-making and alteration I intend to draw attention to the often overlooked, and in many cases, more poetic nature of the material and image.
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