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What would be a perfect photograph? If such a thing were possible, it would have to have balance and secrets in full supply. The great quandary from the beginning of photography or any art on paper or the like has been how to capture or translate three dimensions on to a two dimensional surface. Clare MacDonald in her mad genius way flies in the face of that and gives us a row of perfectly shaped “photographs” of artist’s geometric models. The artist has bent the report of light on photographic surface.
There is something incredibly satisfying about looking at this row of sculptures. The scale and proportions fill the eye comfortably.
Clare Strand, “Spaceland/Flatland”, 2012
Great artists challenge us to look again, to consider and to reconsider, to think. On her website Strand describes herself as “working with and against the photographic medium” continuing .”I often reject the subject-based qualities and the immediate demand of information, so often associated with the photographic image and instead, and without apology, adopt and welcome a subtle, slow burn approach”.*1 She leaps over photography’s need to be descriptive.
A complete installation of “Spaceland/Flatland” would include two-dimensional versions of the fully realized works, what gets cut out then assembled. I find them distracting and feel as if the magician is telling us how they do it. I haven’t included those visuals here. Further the artist has also fabricated the series in color. A black set is illustrated here. Again she’s the artist, and I’m the writer who is telling you what he wants to look at.
Strand likes her prepositions. In her photographic inquiry, she wants to know everything ,what is above, across, against, along, among, around, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, by, down, from, in, into, near, of, off, on, to, toward, under, upon, with and within.
*1 https://www.clarestrand.co.uk
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