Artistic Statement – Insomnia: Hotel Noir

Expressway Heights  (Insomnia: Hotel Noir) 2007 copyright Douglas Stockdale – 

I am in the middle of a bunch of multi-tasking tasks and I am afraid that I am not getting much of anything accomplished.  So I have decided to work on taking first-things-first.  The first is to follow up and complete the artistic statements for a number of my series that are in progress.  My book dummy for Bad Trip – Sad Trip will just have to wait.

I just updated my artistic statement for Insomnia: Hotel Noir on my web site. I am pretty sure of what I wanted to accomplish with this series and I had started writing some notes to add to the artistic statement.  Then I left these notes for this and the other series in the back of the seat of the plane when I landed in Shanghai earlier this month. sigh. A bit of jet lag and pretty tired so I was not on top of my game.

I have spent the necessary time to reconsider and reflect, thus I needed to make just a few more adjustments to the my artistic statement, which was all that I needed to do. Now over the next couple of days my intent is to write statements for the series A Sideways Glance and Transitional Seam. I may also complete a statement for my project Ethereal Images as well, we’ll see. 

The nice thing about my going through this exercise is that I may have also discovered a way to tie together my earlier landscape work.  That is on the creative burner to ponder a little longer ;- )

BTW the photograph, above, was made in Shanghai during this last trip early in the evening.  My initial intent was to photograph the freeway and then I saw the reflection of the inside of the room as well and it occurred to me that this was a rather nice juxtaposition to include in this series. Inside looking out into the inside.

Best regards,

Doug