The University of Texas at Dallas- ATEC
www.johnpaulcaponigro.com
This work dissolves boundaries
in an attempt to find new possibilities.
There's something mysterious
about
many of the images you are about to see.
Unaltered images look altered.
Altered images look unaltered.
It's a sign of the times.
How do we know
what we know?
Is seeing believing?
Is believing seeing?
Perhaps the questions are more important
than the answers
because they start a never-ending process of inquiry.
This work is a quest for perspective.
Change is not new to photography.
We've seen more change to the medium
in the past decade than we've seen
in it's entire 150 year history.
This is an important time
for photography,
the most influential
visual medium in history.
We are the strongest filter we can place before
the lens. We always point the lens both
outward and inward. What we see changes
what we know. What we know changes
what we see. This work highlights
that eternal process.
It
can be useful to consider things in isolation,
they are never truly isolated;
many things are inseparable.
We are not separate.
You cannot separate the observer from the observed.
Photography is a mirror.
If you look deeply enough,
you'll find it reflects everything.
As
an art form in its infancy, digital imaging has produced a morass of
day-glow hype,
but
on the edges a few individuals have begun
to produce some very sensitive and thoughtful work.
December 2004
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