FRAGMENTED IMAGES - Michael P. Berman 2008 Guggenheim Fellow Photographer
new book
“Trinity” will be released by University of Texas Press October 2009
The Southwestern desert—that tumultuous “zone claimed by two nations, and controlled by no one”—is Charles Bowden’s home and enduring passion. In acclaimed books ranging from A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior and Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family to Inferno [...]
Under a Dry Moon “El Otro Lado”
When I finish a series of black and white landscape photographs
I cut up the negatives and images
and use them in painting, installations and drawings.
With each gathering…
we destroy other ways.
Under a Dry Moon “Footsteps”
In the twelfth century,
the crusaders returned to Europe with a small gift,
the concept of zero.
By the sixteenth century
Mathematics abandoned written description
for symbolic language, a language once spoken by Art.
In the twentieth century, Science used symbolic language
to reveal the structure of existence
and in a simple formula
mass and energy became one.
Walking In darkness
space and time become one.
Under a Dry Moon “Salt”
Science is a way of organizing information
so it can be used.
Religion is a way of organizing information
so it can be believed.
Truth is a way of organizing information
so it can not be questioned.
Under a Dry Moon “Wall”
I’ll wait a little longer in shadows
and warm summer rain
for one who promised to meet me here again
and whisper in silence
before I return to sleep
let the water seep
within these empty rooms
and stain the boarded floors
the child will touch what she wants
with fingers smaller than my own
that fit into cracks and holes
and curl around things she [...]
Under a Dry Moon “Sole Saguaro”
Art gives form to the things we know but cannot yet understand.
Its symbolic structure allows us to approach complex ideas
that would be lost under the weight of analytical language.
Art can serve as a kind of incubator for nascent truths as they evolve a coherent meaning.
Under a Dry Moon “Fallen Ordinance”
Our values are the DNA of our beliefs
and our beliefs are revealed in how we see the land.
Under a Dry Moon “Shadow”
The first day my mind is like a jumping bean on a hot pan.
What I am going to do is what I am going to see.
In a few days I settle down
into a routine … get up hours before sunrise …
walk … and photograph until dark.
In a week I am lonely
I wish I had [...]
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