Altered States of Agoraphobia

The Garden Invasion II

July

The great possession

Haunted treetops

Scented air

Sweet uncertainty

July

The visitor

Summer’s height

Daisy chain teardrops

Age of recovery

July

Touch the earth

Spirits surface

The garden invasion

Welcomes strangers

July

Young leaves weep

From bowing branches

A smoldering lament

An arrival

Poem by Simon Kossoff, 1991

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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.

Altered States of Agoraphobia

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