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Steve Barnard

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Special Issue

an important role because it takes the
viewer to a certain place, the space
that surrounds the subject portrayed on
a photograph is just as important as
the subject by itself, by using a certain
type of landscape you can get into the
psychological part of the viewer and by
this I mean, if I use a landscape with no
elements lets just say a desert, the
viewer can interpret a certain lonely,
introspective image, so it all begins
with what Im trying to emphasize.
As the late Franz West did in his
installations, your work shows
unconventional features in the way it
deconstructs perceptual processes in
order to assemble them in a collective
imagery, urging the viewers to a
process of self-reflection. In
particular, the equilibrium concerning
the composition of your works gives
them a permanence to the intrinsic
ephemeral nature of the images that
you capture. So we would take this
occasion to ask you if in your opinion
personal experience is an absolutely
indespensable part of a creative
process... Do you think that a creative
process could be disconnected from
direct experience?

I don’t think so, creativity and
experience are blended together to
form an idea, I can’t untie the fusion
between these two concepts because
they are linked together.
Same thing happens to the viewer, I
suppose that their own personal
experiences have a direct impact on
how they see my work.

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