MARK ROCKWOOD (Portland, ME)

My work is the material result of a search for insight and identity in a world of things made by man. I try to record, not so much the objects themselves but their unintended arrangement and association and the meaning they confer. I see in the inadvertant ordering in the urban environment sets of clues, the kind an archeologist might search for with the goal of understanding a long dead civilization. What the lost people intend as message in a piece of architecture or artifice is highly modified by its location near other structures of different function and intent. I search for the illusory within the world of the manmade, messages communicated without intent. Scanning and making large archival prints of these delicate images releases their content and re-enacts the experience of the moment of seeing. The rarified color of the Polaroid film matches the heightened expection of the discovery of clues revisited. My earliest experiences with artmaking were as a painter. I failed to see in the paint I applied impatiently the lush interaction of content and color that I see in these images.

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