KARUPAKINSU//ERUBISU
Die Antwoord by Ross Garrett
(Source: injozirossgarrett.blogspot.co.uk)
John Clang
Fear of Losing The Existence (2002)
My parents and parents-in-law are getting older and weaker by each passing day. We are separated by thousands of miles and I only get to see them once a year. With each visit, they look different. Their faces change with more wrinkles, their hair has grown thinner and they have become more fragile – the sure signs of aging. Sometimes when I miss them really badly, I realize I have difficulty picturing their faces accurately in my mind. I’m very afraid that one day I will not be able to remember their faces anymore and we become total strangers.
This series took place in two venues. The location is a motel room I stayed in when I first visited New York City many years ago. The people are strangers I photographed secretly without their knowledge in the urban streets. I have ‘digitally invited’ them to be in the room with me, alone. When I go up to them in the street and take their picture, I was literally at a close distance with no aid of any telephoto lens. The feeling is very intimate and yet very intimidating as well. Having them in the same enclosed space with me, I get to emphasize our closeness in a very strange manner. Its awkwardness makes me feel the vulnerability of two humans, two complete strangers. An interaction with no spoken words.
John Clang
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.”
— Sylvia Plath (via theroseonthegrey)
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