Cairn, Blind Beach
Impossible Project PX 600 Silver Shade Mint Edition, SX-70 with ND filter / close-up lens.
Artist Statement
Heather Champ (°1963, Ottawa, Canada) makes photos and media art. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, Champ often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.
Her photos never shows the complete structure. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality. By creating situations and breaking the passivity of the spectator, she wants the viewer to become part of the art as a kind of added component. Art is entertainment: to be able to touch the work, as well as to interact with the work is important.
Her works are based on inspiring situations: visions that reflect a sensation of indisputability and serene contemplation, combined with subtle details of odd or eccentric, humoristic elements. By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, she tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
Her works are characterised by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middleclass mentality in which recognition plays an important role. Heather Champ currently lives and works in San Francisco.
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A few days in Guerneville
Solargraph created with the Coleman’s Mustard tin at right. There’s more about these tins here.
Postcard 2013 365 distribution
365 people signed up between December 3rd January 5th. I didn’t orient the chart to look like Pac-Man. Nope. Not at all. Global Manifest Destiny? Nada.
001/365 It begins
It was just over a month ago that I announced Postcard 2013 365 and today, I dropped 001/365 into a mailbox on my way Buena Vista Park. I think that I’ll be sending them out in the order in which the participants signed up unless I have the good fortune to be in a country of someone who’s yet to receive their card. Given that there are some far flung folk, that would be kind of awesome. 001/365 is on its way to Maggie Nelson. Woot! 22 spots remain if you’re game. UPDATE: the list is full.
Heather Powazek Champ never leaves the house without a camera. A Canadian by birth, she now calls San Francisco home. More »
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