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Selected work produced as part of the Photography 1 class at MSU-Billings, in the Fall 2017.
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 | Project: The Mundane Series
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Artist Statement
Project: The Mundane Some activities and events lead into obvious narratives but the mundane ones are readily overlooked due to their banality and commonness. Yet, these everyday actions can open a myriad of story possibilities when presented with an undetermined finish. In these photographs I capture a sequence of actions that provide a prompt for participation by either showing the beginning of narrative or inserting the viewer into an existing one. What follows is not presented, leaving the viewer to find and construct the meaning by relying on their own life experiences that they apply in order to build context. - Vince Long, 2017 |
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 | Project: My So-Called Life Series
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Artist Statement
Project: “My So-called Life” As I attempt to look at what defines my so-called life it is impossible to ignore that I am driven by an interest in processes. For unknown reasons, some processes reach out and grab me, demanding that I become at one with them, and draw me to engage with them fully, to understand their nuances, and the range of possibilities they hold. I call these engagements my Hobbies, Interests, and Passions (HIP) and have realize they as are part of what gives relevance to my life. In looking at the many processes I have explored, I have noticed some commonalities, specifically these activities are not passive but are “hands on.” They require an active role for myself, the focus of my attention, and they feed my natural curiosity. The interface through which I access them are my hands. Whether my hands are operating, manipulation, or prepping, they are my handle on engagement. Some of these endeavors require a level of practice in order to be fully engaged and this results in the acquisition of “muscle memory,” a form of procedural memory that allows the action to be repeated without conscious effort. Other processes might be less dependent on that level of dexterity but have enough repetitive actions that muscle memory develops regardless. When muscle memory takes over, the conscious mind concentrates on less mundane matters. How long it takes for this memory to embed, possibly 10,000 hours, it is of no importance as once the process envelopes me, I stay in the “flow” and passage of time is meaningless. The images in this series reflect my range of interests and how my hands are used to interface with the process. In each one, muscle memory has developed but it is not always required for process proficiency and is, sometimes, a collateral benefit. - Vince Long, November 2017 |
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 | Project: The Digital to Analog Series
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Artist Statement
Project: iPhone to Analog In many of my projects, artistic and otherwise, I am drawn to the possibilities that blossom when juxtaposing old and new technologies, such as analog and digital. This offers challenges of both technical and contextual natures, allowing for a synthesis of ideas to flow from the problems-solving process that not always has an end goal in mind. In these photographs I have mixed the digital world, captured with an iPhone camera, with the analog world by printing the resulting images in a traditional darkroom process. First, digital image is manipulated by converting it to a grey-scale, followed by inverting it to a negative, and then it is flipped on one axis. The iPhone was then placed in a photographic enlarger in place of a film negative. The illuminated screen of the phone provides the light that is projected through the enlarging lens onto the photographic paper. The remaining steps follow the traditional developing process. The resulting images contain interesting artifacts from both worlds. For example, the projected image is made up of red, green, and blue pixels, however, the photographic paper is less sensitive to red than other colors, resulting in a shift in the tonal values and a degree of “graininess.” Instead of grain from the film, we find, upon close inspection, evidence of the pixels that comprise the image on the phone's screen. - Vince Long, 2017 |
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