Anodyne
Friday, June 09, 2006
 

Roy Arden, East Vancouver, 2006

A photograph I don't think I would have paid much attention to a year or two ago. Lots of subtle things going on, though. The "emulation of a glance." First, and most successfully, the horizontals -- yard fence, patio railing, and cinderblock wall -- staggered through space, and the way in which the hydrangea blooms (fading, brown like the grass, obviously past their prime) disrupt this grid-like architecture. Second, the way that this compositional structure is imbedded in a style that emulates casualness, amatuerism (that little corner of window, half-visible behind the tree; the tiny piece of cinderblock at upper right that indicates that the patterned cinderblocks are further back in space than you might first believe). The whole picture is oddly cropped, as if by someone unfamiliar with art photography's codes. Yet it hangs together just fine.
- posted by cjb @ 9:29 PM


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