JENSEN-NAGLE, Joshua
My work over the past several years has explored the use of photography as a medium to create. Whether it is sx-70 Polaroid’s or photographic prints painted and then re-photographed, I understand photography as a means to create rather than to document a reality.
The work is inspired by a theme of degradation or change in our environment, and culture. This theme has been evolving in my work for years. As we progress as a society there is a level of degradation and change that is bound to happen. Whether I romanticize, document, or reveal truth about this degradation is left up to the viewer’s own perception, their own awareness of the world around them, and their own experiences within that world.
That is not to say that the viewer must bring meaning but that the artist should not force meaning and associations onto them. One should experience the work and bring their own relations, associations and meaning to it.
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