The
camera excels at freezing time and
space,
at capturing a moment, at rendering a scene in exact
and vivid detail.
Our long standing acceptance of this, our unconscious
conviction that
something must have been before the lens, imbues a
photograph with
a sense of reality, of truth.
I am drawn, however, to the camera’s ability to
distort, to isolate,
to flatten, to merge, and in doing so to reveal mystery
and beauty
often bypassed or hidden within everyday scenes
My photos reveal empty places, stage sets awaiting
actors.
fragments extracted from context, glimpses into a
different world.
However, these works are incomplete without your active
participation.
Therefore I invite you, the viewer, to enter, to
populate these empty scenes,
to imagine what has happened and what is about to take
place.
I invite you to shape these fragments to your
imagination. I invite you
to find context, to provide content, a place, a
beginning or an end.
I invite you to open the doors of your imagining to
these images as you would
to shapes in the sky or stories in the fire.
Robert Hesse, Winchester, MA