dayoutlast

dayoutlast is a record of my direct engagement with mostly contemporary art, mostly Los Angelean.

As this blog has evolved since its 2010 inception, so has my perspective. What I once perceived as central within the investigation was what was central, literally, within the photographic frame that I shared here. While still an important consideration, such thinking has also given way to more peripheral considerations, ones also accompanied occasionally by text (written manifestation of thought) and the oscillations between them. What's missing here are larger unknowns surrounding issues of presentation and representation; the amount of time and space it actually takes to accomplish such first-hand observations; and the quandaries between documentation and interpretation.

Despite my attempt to communicate here with image and text what is essential in some respect about the artwork, neither representation should ever be considered a substitution for the primary viewing experience. Of course, occasionally there are exceptions.

Most of the time, these posts are merely remnants---residual fragments---from my last day out.

--Justin Lowman

Thursday, January 3, 2019

Uta Barth @ Orange County Museum of Art | Santa Ana

Ground #33, 1994

Ektacolor print on panel

If it's not weird enough to photograph a photograph for digital display such as this blog often must, it's almost equally if not more weird to post pictures of the same photograph as both isolated image without depth as well as object in context, on a wall in this instance. Somehow the shadow of the mounted photo (illuminating depth) combined with color in photo and wall makes for a strange effect when and where either photo could be seen as a final "product." A photo of light and (slight) object squared, or something like that. The words can not seem to locate the perception and feeling but light and slight come close, of course, also hoping that sharing of such a photo and construct is not a slight to the work.