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2014
QUESTION PROJECT
WALKING or SEEING?
A UNE PASSANTE / TO A PASSERBY
DEBBIE CARLOS
2014/10/08 - 11/01
WALKING or SEEING?
Walking ten thousand steps a day is said to be good for your health. Within such repetitive movement, however, do we simply pass by without noticing or are we capable of discovering something more extraordinary? By paying attention to moments of small encounter, the urban wanderer can capture the fleeting tensions that arise between these two states, revealing deeper meanings embedded in our surroundings.
Debbie Carlos reconstructs the aesthetics of the everyday by framing such ways of seeing via acts of intuitive observation. Through her lens, the time and space of our world appears to drift back toward the objects themselves. In observing these various photographed forms, the viewer is then able to locate the fragments of life that are held within and between each of these framed gestures.
A une passante / To a passerby
Debbie Carlos’s photography attempts to capture in full clarity the visual tension of an image in any given light, time, and place, through acts of wandering and noticing. Moments of quiet strangeness, patterns of light and shadow, inadvertent changes, things being in or out of place, natural and artificial phenomena, all serve as inspirations for her work. In addition, her themes often include food, travel, lifestyle, and interior spaces. Utilizing elements of time, space, color, and object to echo or contrast the composition, she thus imbues everyday scenes with the power to make us pause and reflect. In doing so, her work reveals the intertwining narratives and vocabularies located within the various intersections of the concrete and abstract. Elements that link all of us together, and ones discernable in the everyday imagery she encounters upon her urban wanderings.
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