Literature

“The camera is an unsophisticated mechanical instrument which, like a mirror, reflects passively without a conscience. The artist must supply the conscience.” ~ Ralph Eugene Meatyard Ralph Eugene Meatyard, is a master of supplying conscience. His images wrap the viewer up in a haunting consideration of mortality, relationships, and romantic surrealism. The imagery is timeless in nature, and always wholly symbolic of his personal relationships with his family. Meatyard often photographed his own children. However he plays with the nature of the theatre as he casts other children as gestures or figments of his own children. In this way the echo of their own intimacy continues.