these are great. I keep coming back to look at em again. Not sure what to say but I want one. I'm not sure about "Scene 2002" - I think I get it without this. But the other ones are crazy sweet.

- joester 3-23-2007 7:57 am

When I was a teenager I'd run down the battery of my mom's car by shining the headlights on wheat fields.

I should get a big fat Governor-General's Art Award AND a big fat Canada Council grant just for writing that on a blog. Then I should get a Sobeys Award and a Chalmers Foundation Fellowship and a Trillium Grant and the OAC and the TAC should also fund the writing of that one fucking line.

Then Gordon Lightfoot should write a song and use it in the chorus.
- L.M. 3-23-2007 8:19 am

i like them alot. brings to mind the dramaticly lit nocturnes of o winston link.


- bill 3-23-2007 2:51 pm

LM

Then you should be eulogized on 22 Minutes. I actually LOL'ed when I read this. (Speaking of which, do you think emailers can be divided into 2 categories, those that use LOL and those that do not?)


- nanmac (guest) 3-23-2007 7:20 pm

I wrote a 2-sentence review of this project back in 2002. It went like this: "I really dug the romance and high drama of Andrew Wright's tree photographs. These great big pines photographed at night looked like movie stars, all glam and dazzling in the spotlight."
- sally mckay 3-23-2007 9:33 pm

Nanmac, there is a third category, LOL in sparkle text. (who you suspect of being ironic, but actually love sparkle text more than anything on earth)


I'd never seen the work of O Winston Link before, those photos are beautiful!


- L.M. 3-23-2007 9:40 pm

Sally, the thought of a career consisting of two sentence reviews is inspiring.
- L.M. 3-23-2007 9:42 pm

O.W.L. is the bomb.
He used dozens of lights on stands, timed to capture a train as it was passing through a station at night.
He is a favorite of photography as well as train circles.
- tom moody 3-23-2007 9:45 pm

for some reason it also conjures the tree burning scenes in rollerball.

In 1996, Link's second wife, Conchita, was arrested for (and later convicted of) stealing a collection of Link's photographs, after she attempted to sell them, claiming that Link had Alzheimer's disease and that she had power of attorney. She served six years in prison. After being released, she again attempted to sell some of Link's works that she had stolen, this time using the internet auction site eBay. She received a three-year sentence.[17] Conchita was also accused of imprisoning her husband.[18] However, this allegation is disputed by some, and it never led to any criminal charges against Conchita.

So I should contact crazy criminal Conchita? She's selling them cheap?

Sally and I once discussed those things we all should have as artists, one was excessive fame and stardom in a small Balkan county, and now I can add an opportunist ex (with a fabulous name) willing to fraudulently sell all my work on e-bay.
- L.M. 3-23-2007 11:15 pm

there was a giant pick up bed filled with dead wood i found today and took a foto, its like the nan goldin remix of these fotos, when the two machines a re linked up, i will post them
- anonymous (guest) 3-24-2007 9:54 am

me being anthony
- anthony (guest) 3-24-2007 9:54 am

Well then, Anthony, in the meantime, I'll continue playing my acoustic guitar and singing my little heart out.
- L.M. 3-24-2007 10:04 am

Wow! I had never seen OWLs work either--shoudl we call him Night Owl?

Thanks Sally for that 2-line review. I always thought you'd written that because Anitra Hamilton had written: "Andrew Wright's photos of trees shot at night using professional lights on stands to simulate daylight demonstrated a dissappointing lack of faith in the viewer. The intended effect was the eerie reversal of a night scene, somewhat remniscent of René Magritte's "Empire of Lights." Unfortunately the stands were left in the shot, negating any possibility of deception. The resulting prints were neutered of any potential for drama: the effect was arch. Sometimes you just have to trust the viewer."

Not only did I have to look up the "Empire of Lights" (which I thought had nothing to do wit hmy work), but I had to look up her use of the word 'arch':
arch 2 adjective deliberately or affectedly playful and teasing : arch

"observations about even the most mundane matters. DERIVATIVES archly adverb archness noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent.(in the sense [chief, principal] ): from arch- , because of its association with words such as rogue."

Anyway, don't you always have to trust the viewer? How did she know my intent? Damn! I left the lights in the shot?! I told them to crop that!

...been meaning to get this out for a few years now. Ok. I'm done. Hers is the only truly bad review I've got so far (I guess I should consider myself lucky). It's proudly posted (along with Sally's) on my web site.

Thanks L.M. Truly edifying!
- Andy Boy (guest) 4-02-2007 8:26 am

Hi Andy Boy! We post art so that people can finally heal. See you on cafka tv.
- L.M. 4-02-2007 9:43 am