When I started this blog in January of 2010, the sharing of exhibition images was not what it is today. Most galleries had inadequate websites and there were few 3rd party blogs/sites dominating the landscape. This blog, for me, was a place to synthesize the photographic results of my own art viewing activity; it still is. That said, it continues to evolve, not only as a function of my viewing preferences (my interests/tastes/foci) and how the camera technologies govern the possibilities as it pertains to field of frame and light (the constraints of space and camera (smart phones all)), but also how I am now able to also use gallery websites to cross-reference and occasionally use images to fill in gaps. Needless to say, place, technology and subject has changed how I am able to view/understand works of art.
What ultimately has developed, which I like best, is a collected archive of images that also includes the distillation of my range of interests as can be evidenced by the actual framing of each photograph, the sequence of images within posts as well as from one to the next, and occasionally text that supports/reinforces/supplants the image.
Technically, the blog is laid out with the most recent posts first, scrolling downwards from past page to past page like layers of sedimentation or piles/files of paper. Thus, a temporal library of sorts is created. Along the right hand side, there are a few blogs that I link for your interest (I rarely find time to visit them myself). Next down are the top ton most current posts on this blog; this is always a curiosity to me as some level of viewer interaction and chance are involved, not the least of which are my suspicions about contracted click-farm activities. Continuing downward is a very important component of the blog; it is titled Medium/Site and it tracks the number of posts within the categories that I have specified. It is an analytic that is an investigation of how medium and site interact (my own artistic interests coming through) as well as revealing which ones are the most in the entire blog. It’s pretty telling and not surprising as it reveals my own focus and interest. So, hopefully, a shift in my art-viewing in terms of both medium, subject and focus can be seen over time.
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