My happy place is, well…..all over the place. I love to create photographic abstractions and divided images or “splitscapes”, highlighting a shift from one state or object to another. This often results in the transition between city and rural or pristine and polluted. I live in Los Angeles, where these interstitial spaces are in my face all the time….feeling fortunate to live in such a rich urban multiverse. I also become preoccupied with mundane juxtapositions, my “micro-obsessions”. These have included a single palm tree standing sentry in front of a building and ‘little house/big cactus’, a large cactus eclipsing a small house – or is it small house photobombing a large cactus? Who knows? Who cares? My digital photocollages come together in a way similar to the way an assemblage artist may create a composition from found objects. My pixeled detritis is like picking trash off the street. And sometimes the image is literally of trash on the street. If I become obsessed with some compositional idiosyncrasy, I give up on trying to understand its meaning pretty quickly and work my neurosis for all it’s worth. That’s what art is about — for me, anyway.
You can do anything you like, it’s all fiction.
John Gossage, photographer
I agree.
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