LOOK BUT DON'T TOUCH

2020

POLAROID PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES

 

In early 2020, the Corona Virus, or Covid-19, hit the United States. Schools were closed, businesses shuttered, and people forced into self-isolation and social distancing. This project is designed to address the separation required between family, friends, and neighbors, but also the horrible reality of what this means; not being able to be with those who need us most. The images in this series touch on the desire for contact and difficult in not seeing others; connection without contact.

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The immediacy of the Polaroid creates a fun souvenir of the experience and yet is frustratingly clumsy, inconsistent, and aesthetically flawed. There is delight and pain, convenience and difficulty, access and limitation.

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At each location, the artist communicates simple instructions to the participants through the use of large note cards, further stressing the social-isolation required. Two Polaroids are created; one for the artist, one for the participant.

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As this is an ongoing project, new images will be added as they are created to this site, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram; social media and digital chat platforms  being a primary form of communication and connectivity.

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