Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

ShoegaZzzzzz, 2015 In Arvo Part’s seminal work Spiegel im Spiegel, he presents the listener with an unending tonic triad. The title itself references the infinite mirroring of two parallel planes suspended indefinitely. In the series ShoegaZzzzz, it is transcendence through music that I am interested in.  Music can have otherworldly effects on the human psyche...This computer generated world creates a scene that is hyperreal in nature, one were for example, the ultimate gesture of shoe tossing is coupled with a vista of clouds in the sky. These tableau's signify what was, the ephemeral, the fleeting but the familiar. See more here: www.untitledproof.com/shogazzzzz

Gus van Sant: Gerry (2002), 103 min

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