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Artist Statement for Ramesh Yanthra
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The non-structural content of my work is generally a foray into artistic and societal structures that I find confining or confusing—traditional narrative structure.Storylines and ideas are opened to questions rather than presented as complete. My intent is to work towards an epiphany of opening rather than one of certitude.
Where some see places and things, I am stimulated by light, form, and movement. Through photographic expression of landscapes and birds, I can communicate the essence of what I see.
Once I have identified a promising location, I attempt to determine optimal conditions, often returning repeatedly to the same location just as a gardener checks his crops or a lobsterman checks his traps. Sometimes the composition itself is predetermined by the location, the conditions, or the subject. I wait until I see something new revealed. I enjoy photographing just before dawn, continually trying to catch the unique quality of days first light, or at sunset when I can capture the last moments of light. Each day presents a chance to visualize and is filled with new combinations of light and color. From the migrating bird on its passages to the grandest landscape, the natural world is revealed to me in a rich tapestry of abstract shapes, textures, patterns and colors.
Beyond this, however, my work is rooted in structural concerns, and as much as I explore myth-reality discrepancies, I am also exploring tensions between sound, image and text as elements which struggle to describe a certain meaning but which have their own agendas. The marrying of these elements in unfamiliar and unlikely juxtapositions serves to destabilize any viewer attempt to completely synthesize one meaning from the experience-but encourages them, I hope, to aesthetically appreciate and savoir the experience of incompleteness and uncertainty.
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