Malone, Texas 2008
It was a dark and rainy day as we rolled slow through Malone. Never know what to expect in these "rode hard and put-up wet" Centex towns. Dust or mud depending on the weather. But you can be sure of one thing, they play football. Go Mustangs!!
2 comments:
A couple of posts back you mentioned regular visitors - I'm one: a Brit in the Netherlands (actually Norway as I type this).
I've been enjoying your stuff for a while but am getting mixed messages from the Texas series. From some I get a sense of serenity from abandoned structures, others a documetary on the maintenance of life in crumbling surroundings and others almost despair at the sense of Depression-like abandonment.
I'd love to know what is drawing you to photograph the various subjects in this particular series.
Doonster:
Mostly what I'm interested in is the symbolism these things I find that to me represent who we are as a subculture within our broader national idenity. The subjects I choose to photograph are never hidden -- most are made by me standing within a few feet of my truck -- but seem seldom noticed by anyone but me. I realized that by making an image of such I raise some of these things to the level of icon, but in a broder sense, for me, they become an enigmatic representation of life. Mostly they are highly detailed documents of life in the more rural areas of this part of Texas.
P'taker
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