Sod People
What began as a reflective and apologetic letter to my daughter about the mindset I was approaching keeping her family album became a prose poem about teaching photography, prints in the age of digital supremacy, the photo archive, and vignettes about putting down roots with a remarkable device, the midwestern lawn.
I had, because of where I was a remarkable collection of greens in my archive, and so many sod anecdotes, in various cultural contexts, the story may be pieced together by the footnotes for 2015-17 when I wrote it was a peculiar time for us, and photography too.
Prints of various sizes, from 36” square to mural size, and then so many 4”x6" printed snapshots installed. The installation includes playful photographs of of sod and photos, rugs and albums, grass and roots. The Artits's book, Sod People, filled with slippery prose, telling a story about the family album in the digital age, from the vantage point of a midwestern photo teacher tasked with making the family photo albums. There are no portraits in this one. Strange imagery.
