Altered States of Agoraphobia: Running on Empty (Exhibition)

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Running on Empty (Exhibition)

Grundy, VA

Las Vegas, NV

Galena, KS

White House, Topeka, KS

Thrift Store, Lawrence, KS

An exhibition of my photographs from my 'Running on Empty' series will open in July at Momentum Gallery, 2014 Main St, KCMO, 64108 and will continue through the month of August. The show is divided into two parts. Each month showing 10 images.

These exhibitions will be part of the 'First Fridays' event at the Crossroads Arts District.

Part One: Friday July 3rd. 6-9pm
Part Two: Friday Aug 7th. 6-9pm

Anyone in the Kansas City area is welcome to come along and see the show and say hi.

1 comment:

Michael RisenhooverJune 25, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Someday I hope to see one of your shows!
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Welcome

About the photographs: These images are a search for a personal orientation between the dream or idea of a place and my actual experience of it in reality. They can be described as a collection of psychic coordinate points which I have plotted between the imagined America I brought with me from England and the real America I found on my arrival in 2008. These images are half truth and half fiction. They are a psychogeography, filled with personal symbolism and tangled with influences so old they were already part of me long before this journey ever began.

A note about the title:  The compulsion to travel, to move from one place to another, has been with me my whole life. Whether it be local, national or international, I have always found myself either in motion or, if not, I have been dreaming about it. Paradoxically, it has been in the periods of dreaming that Agoraphobia, (which Google defines as “Extreme or irrational fear of entering open or crowded places, of leaving one's own home, or of being in places from which escape is difficult”) has gripped me and, at times, crippled me. These photographs are my continued (once secret) revolt against it in the United States of America today, despite recent quarantines.