Objects In A Park Suggest Static Repose

Let's Face It, The Human Eye Is Clumsy, Sloppy, And Unintelligible When Compared To The Camera's Eye.

There Is Something Abominable About Cameras, Because They Possess The Power To Invent Many Worlds. As An Artist Who Has Been Lost In This Wilderness Of Mechanical Reproduction For Many Years, I Do Not Know Which World To Start With. I Have Seen Fellow Artists Driven To The Point Of Frenzy By Photography.

From The Top Of The Quarry Cliffs, One Could See The New Jersey Suburbs Bordered By The New York City Skyline.

Noon-day Sunshine Cinema-ized The Site, Turning The Bridge And The River Into An Over-exposed Picture. Photographing It With My Instamatic 400 Was Like Photographing A Photograph. The Sun Became A Monstrous Light-bulb That Projected A Detached Series Of Stills Through My Instamatic Into My Eye.

A Work Of Art When Placed In A Gallery Loses Its Charge, And Becomes A Portable Object Or Surface Disengaged From The Outside World.