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Artist Statement
I am aware of a hurting world where tragedy strikes daily. I can best articulate my response to these tragedies and my understanding of hope through finding colors and details with the camera. So, when a typically beige building displays a piece of street art, a scrap of ribbon lies on the sidewalk, or the grass presents a newly fallen treasure, I notice. When I recognize these aspects of life that are easily missed, I find a hope that I address in my art. Particularly through photography, I present images as a challenge for viewers to ponder their own hopes and to become more aware of their world. I remember being repulsed by the idea of always carrying my camera because I felt like in doing so, I would be stepping out of life rather than enjoying it fully. But since doing so, I have learned to see better. In this piece, I present these photographic explorations of hope. I call for others to see beauty in the ordinary and desire for this to spur them to change their world.
the artist
- kelleyjordan
- i am an artist striving to recover hope and beauty through photography, growing food, bartering, biking, living closely with community and as simply as i can.
side note to the online viewer:
the images that are taped around the world are fakes. i create polaroid looking images by assembling a printed image and white frame. this dimension brings me deeper into the project, making a greater connection to the work and those who find the polaroid. (admittedly, it did begin because polaroid film is so expensive. but ive chosen to continue it in this way. they are my hand made gifts to the world.)
stories of people & traveling polaroids
be a traveling polaroid-er
do you want to participate in this polaroid community by taping polaroids wherever you are? email kelleyjordan@gmail.com with your mailing address so i can send you a package.
I found the one on the fence. It gives me hope to imagine that pit of rubble filled with a garden instead of a condo.
ReplyDeletekel.
ReplyDeletea few things:
1) i hadn't been checking this for awhile. darlin, these are fantastic, really--and look how many people are responding!
2) as for sharing photos in new ways, i'd take a page out of PostSecret's book: stick photos in books in bookstores and libraries. when/if you ever go out to eat, leave one or two under the plates or napkins on tables. stick em in mailboxes, or in open bags near you (if you can get away with that :))
i like the mailing thing, definitely.
3) you have no idea how much hope this project gives me, period.
hi! i found the one in maxfields cafe (dirty feet kicked up) on the sticker graffiti pole. it inspired me to write a piece of prose which is perhaps tangentially related. i will send it to you when a draft is finished.
ReplyDeletecheers,
phil
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI found the photo of the gate/fence detail. I was curious about what I thought was a polaroid was a fake (a photo on white paper) I found it near to it's original place only on the floor. For the last 4 years I have been collecting photos from the streets. I have over 300 photos in my collection, along with some love letters, dairies, drawings, criminal, and medical records. I don't go through garbage or recycle bins or anything like that. Only what I basically can see on the open streets. I have trained my eyes to see the light print on the back of photos (like Fuji, Kodak, or the dates.)
I leave the house HOPING I find a photograph on the sidewalk everyday, and when I finally do find one I go into complete ecstatics. So I only found this one because it ended up on the sidewalk. In my collection I have like, maybe, 5 polaroids, so they are very rare, in my experience, which is why I was disappointed to see that is was actually not a polaroid. But I love what your doing, I love having this exprience and photograph to add to my box of things found and to having the oppertunity to communicate it.
Marcus (marcusitoga@mayway.com)
P.S. (I gave up my car 4 years ago, for ecological reasons, and I walk EVERYWHERE!)
I am on the East coast and although I have yet to find one of your polaroids, I find hope in the most mundane of God's glory's; the sunrise, my daughter's expressions, my son's giggles, the sound of the wind whipping through the trees... I find hope in the life around me and the promise of children.
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