Deterioration and Loss

Cover page for book, Out of Context: Deterioration and Loss, from the set, Out of Context into Chaos

The book, Deterioration and Loss, in the project, Out of Context into Chaos:

  • Helps me deal with my concerns of deterioration and loss as I age.
  • Uses reassembly to emphasize the deterioration and loss in the photos of abandon, deteriorating objects that I have collected.
  • Emphasizes the finiteness of life.
  • Figuratively predicts that my life is headed for chaos.
  • Challenges viewers to reconsider the functions of resemblance and composition.
  • Posits that resemblance created by a camera is an exciting and attractive tool, but resemblance of an image to a scene treats all objects equally and draws attention to no one in particular.

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