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gary
duehr
photography Gary
Duehr fractures
In this autobiographical fiction, the cracks in the glass interrupting faces and bodies are real, just not actual. That is, they are trompe l'oeil photographic representations of fractures, embedded in the pictures themselves--that are displayed in Florentine, 8x10-inch gold frames under intact sheets of glass. Are they fissures in memory, or in the family itself? How much can be recovered from collective storytelling that's been shaded over the years? A younger sister barely appears at the edges. Brothers stand in for each other. Mom and dad hover just out of sight and reach. This family album is meant as a Rorschach test for viewers; it is up to them to decide how comic or tragic, poignant or ridiculous these poses and empty spaces are.
hotel rooms--finite, freezing-- to which one returns again and again.
A snapshot which everyone still inhabits, whether they want to or not.
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