JAKOB DE BOER – WHERE RAVENS CRY
2020-11-23In many ways, Where Ravens Cry was about going back in time – back into my earliest childhood memories of the Pacific NorthWest, but also into the origins of the mythology of this place. I have always wanted to stand in places where myths were birthed. Being there, one is reminded that beginnings are defined by time. By combining ‘photographed’ elements through juxtaposition, a kind of duality between the ‘real’ and the ‘created’ – meaning time – was birthed. Pre-Myth represents the whole of the work as all things were born out of it. In working on it, the sculptural nature of the Pre-Myth piece shifted my photographic thought process. When I crossed over the invisible barrier of “yes I can put these images together”, my photographic process changed.
Jakob de Boer
Opposite – Sproat Lake, Where Ravens Cry #26, 2016
Exhibition runs through to December 12th, 2020
Maine Museum Of Photographic Arts (MMPA)
2525 Michigan Avenue
Los Angeles
CA 90404
