The Mayfly II
Rockaway Alliance of Artists - April 2018
Money Plant Seed Pods - Their function complete, artifacts of several stages of a plant's life, they stand as ornaments and testaments, the swiftly changing currencies of life.
Curiosity, "Interplanetary Insect" - The summer before last, one day after dark, I noticed something new on my living room lamp. A strange, fascinating bug with what appeared to be planets, crescent moons and comets in symmetrical orbits on its delicate wings. I took a photograph with my nearby cell phone and went into the kitchen to get my wife. In the brief time we took to return it was gone.
Gears in Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn, NY - How many years were these gears and washers part of a vehicle's transmission, swerving through traffic, only to be finally petrified in a cross walk near the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue...to be noticed in an errant glance.
Not static and with an ambiguous, often unknowable narrative, the visual world can nevertheless be recorded with a camera. Chance, chaos, co-incidence, the strict logic of reflected light, the sheer particularity of objects, I encounter these elements before me and within the frame of my lens. I respond within and outside the limits of my instrument, which has certain capabilities beyond my own. This entanglement and asymmetrical relationship often results in unexpected and rewarding results, relationships and simultaneous events or associations, dissonances and harmonies far greater than expected, anticipated or even imaginable. For this reason I continue to go out into the field.
Tom Rozakis
2018