9/10 Post John Funderburg

What does it mean (for me) to replicate the computer error? This is one question I need to begin working around. In one instance I believe it has the ability to take this anywhere, anytime landscape and ground it in the contemporary moment. As I type this on my 'school' iPad riding in a car across Arkansas highways, my 1yo girl watches cartoons to soothe her frustrations. Driving past LED billboards, surfing the information highway on a literal highway. Secondly I think it is meant to refer back to the process in which the image was created. I am trying to work the organic landscape through this filter of the machine and then interpreted through my own muscle. So the product is the sum of these three components nature, machine, muscle. I have heard so often that our phones distract us from the beauty around us. (Mostly from my mother and grandmother.) I feel like I have found the opposite. In my practice, as I said before, I am always taking photos of the landscape around me. Whether it is a gas station rest stop or a mall parking lot, I take this convention of 'phone-as-distraction' and use it as a tool to capture the moment. So I might consider taking busted or old smartphones loaded with my digital images and installing them into a gallery.

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