Everyday Seattle in Photographs
The Emerald City really does have everything. After taking one short trip to the Great NorthWest, it’s kind of hard not to decide to live in Seattle some day. To every visitor who comes here, every guest in every Seattle hotel , it feels like an original idea, where the life before was leading up to the trip to the city which would one day become home. It is a good idea, after all, being one of the most livable cities in the world, and one of the nicest. It’s also got innovations in every field, from painting to music, and with {Isaac Layman+http://www.lawrimoreproject.com/lp/Artists/Pages/Isaac_Layman.html#19 , with photography.
Since he graduated from UW in 2003, he has been making impressive debuts in the field of experimental photography, creating images that seem to work in nearly any gallery space. It’s an unusual technique, and one that could only come from the mind of a singularly obsessed artist.
He photographs his house+http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/flying-off-the-walls/Content?oid=4444209 , and the objects are always of the everyday. Extension chords, for example, are the fodder for a gaze that deconstructs and reconstructs in an amazing geography of meanings. Using multiple shots from multiple perspectives from a high-resolution camera, the images are then put back together to create works that are immediately unsettled. It’s a new way of seeing photography, from someone who is involved in a life-long project of learning how to see the world.
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