FRAGMENTED IMAGES - Michael P. Berman 2008 Guggenheim Fellow Photographer
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.