Altered States of Agoraphobia: Running on Empty. Exhibition. Part Two

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Running on Empty. Exhibition. Part Two

Hobby Lobby, KS

Pratt, KS

39th St, KS

'Bird in the Hand'

West Kansas

The second part of my exhibition of photographs from the 'Running on Empty' series will open in 7th August at Momentum Gallery, 2014 Main St, KCMO, 64108.

This exhibition will be part of the 'First Fridays' event at the Crossroads Arts District.

Friday Aug 7th. 6-9pm (until September)

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

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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.