Altered States of Agoraphobia: Salina, KS (Horizontal)

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Salina, KS (Horizontal)

Recently I made a short trip to Salina Kansas, where my wife had a conference. This is a selection of the horizontal images I made whilst wondering around the town on that afternoon. Salina is located apx 164 miles west of Kansas City on Interstate 70. And is, I was told on my return, very close to the geographical centre of the USA.

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stefan kozmaApril 17, 2010 at 7:07 AM
love the compos.

nice series.
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Jim HartApril 18, 2010 at 6:42 AM
the photography gods were smiling on you big time in salina -- love each and every one of these.
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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.