Altered States of Agoraphobia: AUBADE Magazine Issue 2

Saturday, March 5, 2011

AUBADE Magazine Issue 2

I was really excited to find out today that 4 images from my recent trip to the Oz Museum in Wemego, KS have been published in the second issue of the excellent arts magazine Aubade. Many thanks to Christ Turner for selecting these images and showing faith and support for my various on-going projects and also for all his hard work in editing and designing what looks like another wonderful issue. I am truly honored and I am in the company of some fantastic artists there.

"Issue 2 of Aubade Magazine contains photography, writing and art from artists all over the world. Paintings from Japan, poems from Australia, photography from the streets of London, Paris, Stockholm, Washington DC and Antarctica." -(& Kansas of course :-)

Unpublished image from the Oz Museum series

Follow this link to view more from Wemego, KS Oz Museum (behind the curtain)

http://simonkossoff.blogspot.com/2011/01/wemego-ks-oz-museum-behind-curtain.html

To order and preview Aubade issue 2 please follow this link:

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/Issue/168848

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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.