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Can I say something? Uh Yeah. I like the idea of the trophy. I think that’s really weird too… I mean maybe you planted the tree but its still a product of nature I mean most people move into their homes and the trees are already there, at least the big ones… but because they pay for the mortgage or for that land it’s a kind of strange ownership of what was already there before.
So you would say that these images have something to do with ownership or have something to do with ownership? Yeah. I mean the owner of the yard claims ownership of these… they spent all that money… but I don’t know if it’s a true ownership… It’s what? It’s the most control that a human can have over this object. Which is? The lighting, the claiming, the imaging? Yeah I mean, that lighting it up, the removing it from its natural surroundings. Its kindof like an outdoor houseplant. The lights never turn off.
I think that’s a good parallel with this work. The idea of ownership. Yeah I was going to ask that. So right, where does ownership work into this work for you. Um. I think its. It comes in the idea of… a photographer’s ownership of an image, but I’m not talking about the physical paper, like the rights of the image but I’m talking about like the moment that the image is made. Like grabbing it out for the visual ether. Yeah exactly. Oh. Um yeah. I mean. I’m using… Ok so there’s that. And I’m trying to articulate that idea through specific kinds of imagery and I’m using these uhh… controlled landscapes as subject matter. Controlled? Yeah, not domesticated? Well I think its definitely… well maybe its both that I’m thinking of. And I think the third image is less, maybe less about domestication and more about this idea of ownership and wanting to have complete control over an image and trying to illustrate that in a much less subtle way… but… I don’t… What did you say. Oh I forgot about this one.. I don’t know. I. I’m still articulating what it is about the domestic landscape that interests me. Or why I think its useful or productive material for trying to get across what its… im trying to say.
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