Movies of my Mind
28.5” x 26”, 2024
This one is much more personal than what I normally make. I grew up as the only child of a single mom in a very small town with no other kids around, and movies were my window to the world. They showed me places and people and ideas I’d have no access to otherwise, they taught me taste and style. But they also skewed my perception in unrealistic ways. I’ve been thinking lately that perhaps I was a bit too lost in that cinematic dreamworld and didn’t pay enough attention to the place I came from. That place, Effingham County, Georgia, is in the photos that comprise the background. They were taken 50 years before I was born but it didn’t look much different decades later when I was a teenager. It’s quite stark and bleak, but it’s inescapably a part of me. It’s been said many times before, but you often have to leave something behind to realize what made it special.
28.5” x 26”, 2024
This one is much more personal than what I normally make. I grew up as the only child of a single mom in a very small town with no other kids around, and movies were my window to the world. They showed me places and people and ideas I’d have no access to otherwise, they taught me taste and style. But they also skewed my perception in unrealistic ways. I’ve been thinking lately that perhaps I was a bit too lost in that cinematic dreamworld and didn’t pay enough attention to the place I came from. That place, Effingham County, Georgia, is in the photos that comprise the background. They were taken 50 years before I was born but it didn’t look much different decades later when I was a teenager. It’s quite stark and bleak, but it’s inescapably a part of me. It’s been said many times before, but you often have to leave something behind to realize what made it special.