Artist Statement
It’s Complicated Hudson NY, beyond its position as a tourist magnet is a diverse town by most social and economic indicators and it deserves a portrait as challenging as it is. I have lived in Hudson for over thirteen years. Since my first day in town, image by image, I have been building a personal photographic portrait of the city.
“Hudson: It’s Complicated” is a series of montages created from photographs of Hudson that I made during the pandemic. Walking its streets and alleys, I photographed domestic buildings, commercial buildings, garages, carriage houses, front, side, and back yards, storefronts, parks, and objects I’d find laying around.
Each montage is composed of three photographs: a large image over two smaller images. Much as I experience Hudson, I set out to create unity and division within each piece. The viewer encounters the montage as a single image first. A few seconds more, and the montage breaks into its three component parts–offering a broader or more complicated view. And that is the point.
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This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and administered in Columbia County by the Greene County Council on the Arts dba CREATE Council for the Arts.
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This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and administered in Columbia County by the Greene County Council on the Arts dba CREATE Council for the Arts.