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<h1><i>...the past into the future, right<a href="mailto:info@david-carrigan.com" onmouseover="this.style.color = '#EE3502';" onmouseout="this.style.color = '#252525';"> now:</a><br /> that is what continues.</i></h1>
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"Why do you make so many pictures?",  Olivia asks.
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"Learning to see, all over again.", I reply.
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"But," she insists, "your eyes are open... what's the picture for?"
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I listen closely, reading her intonation. Then, "The eyes are tools,
just like this brush, that paint and your question.  A picture is
not an answer, nor completely resolving of any thing or idea.  A
picture is not a question either, although it may 'ask' of the 
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"So, what is it, and why make them?",  tracking, but she skips ahead of me.
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"Each one is a favor, both offered and requested.  Each of these
favors is an object of participation, however brief, however
enduring, where--yes, it is a place--a person might join a
conversation like this one.  The subjects are many, and as with
all dialogues, of things we share and are engaged."
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"What?!", Olivia pursues, "You mean a picture, your pictures, are
like some sort of coffee shop?  And I can just visit them and, what,
have a chat?"
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"Something like that... dialogues between us, through them. We've a
lot to discuss, so I keep making pictures.  Those derived from photography
are not like those I've drawn, painted or printed because the tools and
media are not alike;  however, my practice using all of these means is
similar because, of the tools I use,  my eyes are reading what my hands
render,  and with all due respect for the medium." 
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<b>...take two...</b>
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I can define a location, or a pencil.  I cannot define what I see. 
I could not do this,  ever.  I can only define what I want 
you to see, with an image.  What that is has variation. Yet, I do 
not have a choice. Not one, but so many, in fact, I am buoyed among 
them. As I make a picture,  whatever, even writing this... the 
excluded and omitted, by implication, are a big deal, supporting 
the subject,  like "coffee".
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So,  my work is about choice and that I do not have <i>one</i>. 
Thus reminded of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_thermodynamics" target="_blank"  onmouseover="this.style.color = '#EE3502';" onmouseout="this.style.color = '#252525';">Laws of Thermodynamics...</a> the First 
and Second, specifically; that is,  I cannot truly create, 
nor destroy any thing,  but merely alter forms to define 
(over and over again) that purity is complex, but not confused. 
Each picture is a favor to ask, and an offering of what we may 
commonly agree as "just so".  My works define a position, of decisions
made and a course of actions taken.  But most of all, my work is
a fiction, depicting no real place, persons, nor object, as music
is a kind of rendering "just so".
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Many years ago I practiced more art work. A few pieces were exhibited. 
Then I changed media,  and practice, to information technologies 
and computers. While I continued to paint and photograph, I 
worked more with bits and code,  later teaching others about bits 
and code. Fascinating work,  reaching a not dissimilar "just so", 
especially working with students and the 
less-well-defined-than-conventionally-perceived relationship of 
Data Set and Computer Program.
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Now not as much returning, but from here reflecting and 
representing that which continues, variously known "just so". 
I still program computers, but more as a means for "picture making".
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kind regards,<br />
David
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