Brian Ulrich told me about this artist's series Horizons. I've been trying to pay attention to how I am framing the images I am taking for this project, specifically how I am using the horizon line to my advantage. I like the idea of just providing enough information to give the viewer a place they can connect with mentally. Tsung Leong said that he feels that his images in the series are pieces that can be rearranged, and the viewer can fill the empty spaces with their own horizons. Pretty awesome if you ask me.
"It is this relationship to the outside that gives the horizon an additional implication: that it establishes a sense of imminence, or
of something just becoming apparent, as suggested by the phrase “on the horizon.” What is not yet seen or not yet known
always surrounds and encroaches into the visible or known, and permeates thinking about and looking at our extended surroundings. The challenge that the unknown presents can drive the wish to solidify or reinforce borders, to build walls. But the interest and curiosity that the unknown also elicits can drive the wish to draw new maps, to roam unseen territories, to observe the
seemingly empty regions of space. This drive is an impulse to approach the unknown, that is, to drift towards the horizon."
"These images were not made as documents holding any set truths. They are meant only as suggestions. They are not necessarily images of moments, events, or objects. They are incomplete fragments of the globe. Their order can be rearranged—they
are not without a degree of arbitrariness. They are emptied, to whatever degree is possible or impossible, of specific meanings,
sometimes as physically empty as possible. They are attempts to depict space on the surface of the photograph, spaces into
which viewers can project their own horizons."
Tsung Leong, Sze. "Uncertain Distances." Szetsungleong.com. Web. 14 Nov. 2011. .
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Link to his essay "Uncertain Distances": http://www.szetsungleong.com/Leong_Uncertain_Distances.pdf
Gallery Representation: http://www.yossimilo.com/artists/sze_tsun_leon/
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