Roxanne Worthington “Passing Through #4” Framed Photograph

 
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Design Plus Gallery presents a “Passing Through #4” Framed Photograph by Roxanne Worthington. Slow shutter speed creates an abstracted play of pigment in cool neutral tones. Printed in 2005 out of an edition of ten. Thin black metal frames the contemporary photo. Wired on back to be hung vertically our horizontally.

About Artist:
“As we go from place to place in our busy lives we often move through spaces without noticing where we are or who is around us. Sometimes we are propelled forward on our journey as if on autopilot with thoughts of the future or remembrances of the past occupying our mind. Sometimes we are burdened with emotions so overpowering that what is happening in the present moment seems of little consequence. The people we encounter are dark fuzzy shapes. Our world is out of focus.

I started this body of work in 2005 while I was traveling from California to the Midwest. I was on a journey to see my mother for the last time. As I traveled across the country, my only thoughts were “my mother is dying”. On the long walk between terminals at O’Hare Airport, I noticed that I hadn’t paid attention to anyone (not even the man I sat next to for 4 hours on the plane—he was just a shape, a form). I pulled out my camera in the garishly lit underground and shot the first of the images for the portfolio that was later to become “Passing Through”.

Months later when I reviewed the work, I thought about the fact that my experience that day was similar to the experience of place that many of us have on a regular basis (described in the first paragraph.) As I shot subsequent images I thought about how we often see, or really don’t see people, particularly strangers, as we move through public spaces. We know they are around. We see their shapes and their shadows but we don’t really see them. We’re just passing through on our way from one place to another.

The images for this portfolio were taken primarily in large urban spaces. Some of them were shot in airports, some in museums, some on city streets and some in transit stations. I shot anywhere I could imagine experiencing the same kind of preoccupation I felt that day in 2005.

There are more than 20 final images in the series. After an intense period of concentrating on work for this portfolio I moved on to other projects, but I am inspired to go out and shoot more images for this series at least a few times a year. I plan to continue working on it until I feel that is has ‘run dry’.

The photographs are printed with archival pigment inks on­­ acid free paper. The work is displayed in three different sizes: 14″x 22″, 20″x 30″ and 30”x 45” and sold in limited editions of 35, 25, and 10, respectively. The images are dry mounted on archival foam core or gatorboard and framed edge to edge in thin black metal shadowbox frames and acrylic.”

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Dimensions 45 x 30.5 in
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