PAGES
In this evolving, long-term series I use containers, often books and envelopes, to serve as my recurring connotative premise and arena for interactions of visual thoughts and notations.
Containers as objects are multivalent, their meanings shifting with the expectations and framing of the reader. The relationship between fact and fiction within the pages or confines may be altogether evident to one individual, unfathomable to another, or the very distinction between them seen as irrelevant or non-existent by still others.
Memories encoded in books and enclosed in containers are inexactly iterative.
Pages cannot always contain thoughts.
Our histories invite revision.
This series fuses the innate power of objects with overheard, recorded or sometimes imagined or only implied dialogues. Photography’s own uncertain presence as observer is implicit.
Gloria DeFilipps Brush
© 2023
These photographs are archival inkjet prints from digitally mediated, multiple camera sources.
This series has been supported in part by a University of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid of Research and Imagine grants.
