Artist Statement

 

Creating meaning from any artwork unleashes a gigantic storehouse of human sensibilities that is unconsciously generated by social, personal, cultural and political interactions that are all a part of contemporary life. Simultaneously the artwork displays its own array of particular properties and characteristics, which are then combined together with human sensibilities to create meaning for the viewer.

Meaning is elusive, all encompassing and happens in an instant. The process of constructing meaning from any work of art is hard to observe and hard to avoid. My work and the use of multiple images has always been about disrupting the process of how we construct meaning.

Since its inception, photography has always been used as a surrogate for reality. I use photography to bring truth and reality into question using several points of view to help push the viewer towards developing a new narrative. My use of a camera from the turn of the century, multiple images, contemporary views and the incorporation of images, symbols and icons from our past are all an attempt to put the way we construct meaning into a meaningful sense of disarray.

Greg Erf