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Saguaro
Tucson, Arizona (USA), 2006 |
©2006 John Gardner |
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As a child, I can remember shouting "Look what I see!" to announce the discovery of some amazing novelty. I shared my finds with those around me, who saw them in person. Now I use a camera, a machine that lets you look at what I see, at what I've seen, yet which itself is an "eye" that sees things in its own way, imposing its vision on what both of us see once the negatives are developed. Look What I See is about the joy of the small, daily bits of world that surround us, but which we often walk right past without noticing: the shoes that hang from the telephone line; the lover's names painted on a fading wall; trees; numbers nailed to a door; the sign on a paint factory. All the sad, wonderful beauty in the world, waiting to be looked at, waiting to be seen. It is a work in progress that I add to whenever I see something worth looking at. | |
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