images of nothing
	Seemingly anchored in style, this image has always moved thru time. One of the newer phenomenon's is the challenge of looking and creating The Images of Nothing. Our images have always lead towards explorations of marginal viewing. Even in the times of all those empty planes filled with only projections of our own thoughts, the eye wanted in that space to find a rest known only in closing of its lids. But now, as if the turning of the eye away has become especially intriguing: there is more and more of out-of-focus surfaces into which we glide, and that overall impression that this is the space of unwinding of some recent perceptions. Instead of looking at something (and there is plenty of those images still on this show), now we want to look just a shadow, or maybe ground beneath. Of course, the camera isn't just getting pointed into the ground near a fascinating sight: it is rather that we find some ground feeling as if it is adjacent to the fascinating. This wave of casual was also present in the idea of exhibiting "zero" frames from the 35 mm reel - those accidentally shot while advancing to frame 1. The results just never came close to the "real" images, but the admiration of chance definitely expresses the need for implicit and not completely shown and realized. As if the object, however modest and found on the very margin of our reality, still gazes into our eyes too aggressively for all the delicate cargo that it is bearing.
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