On the Subject of Art
Friday, July 03, 2026
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| Hosta 'Antioch' 3 July 2026 |
In the last few years I have noticed an art form that is the result of repetition. You might photograph 100 different fire hydrants. The expression used is one I abhor – to document. Some photographers might take street shots from the same corner. Another, unnamed, photographs crowds.
To illustrate this blog I am placing an unusual
version of my plant scans. I have at least 3000 of them since I started in
2001. For this one I reversed the scan of the hosta flower and made it a
negative.
One of these and perhaps ten more might be seen as
art, But 3000 of them? As it is when people praise my plant photographs they
lose interest the moment I tell them that they are scanographs and that I am a
scanographer.
No gallery in this city gives me the time of day.
Perhaps when I meet my oblivion my scans will stand out from those crowds.
A
