Making photographs is one of the ways I process my emotional life. Producing images allows me to reconcile my place in the world, and establishes a visual vocabulary for my thoughts and desires. This current group of pictures is a continuation of the work I began with the Alphabet Project. The Alphabet project began as simple concept to produce a site specific figure study based upon the letters of the alphabet. Imposing the alphabet as a matrix for my exploration of the male figure presented both the freedom of the idiom, and the challenge of physically reproducing shapes not commonly associated with the human structure. The place Provincetown. The Alphabet completed, I realized aesthetically I had only begun what was potentially a larger study of the figure. I could view the body as form, without the hindrance of identity, as an integral part of the environment. The imagery is fueled by the photographic tradition of the PAJAMA group, Edward Weston, Harry Callahan, and Herb Ritts. The goal, to make arresting images that could be viewed independently, or as a cohesive body of work. I am indebted to many people for there continued support and appreciation of my endeavors, most notably Frank Considine, David Carrino and Roland Smart. The images are a collaborative effort and I wish to acknowledge my models Edouard Marquis, Brian Reitz, David Frank, Winthrop Booth and Timothy Fristoe without whom these images would not exist. Michael Lynch
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there, at the garden verge, I will pull you up in hope againNo more second thought will crowd you out of your desire To be loved, not touched, to be blameless and ecstatic again This is all there is, no knowledge is too much to bear in the end" "Charming", words and music Jonathan Brooke "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying", Sogyal Rinpoche "Neither god nor demon, I now live in your imagination." "Saltimbanco", a production of Circque Du Soleil 1992-1993 |
