Around ten years ago I positioned the lens of a point & shoot camera a few inches away from my eye to see how close I could get with its macro lens. Those photographs were the first time I have ever seen what my eyes actually look like. Up to that point I just thought of them as brown, but it was an explosion of color and a world within themselves. Black pupil surrounded by a brown, with a shape that resembled a broken sunflower, within yellowish green with a dark muted purplish circle surrounding it all. It was alive and bright and I have never looked at another set of eyes the same way since.
Robert Kamand: Untitled
After close to 10 years I had come to the end of one project and felt lost. I needed to find my way and knew that meant to move and record my environment until I found some answers. In searching I had amassed thousands of images and many of them exist only in folders on my computer, orphaned from a single theme. Every once in awhile when I come across one I remember what I was thinking and feeling, why I made that image and what it means to me now. That’s the genesis for this work, to look at something from my past and rework it so that the reason for its initial existence and what it means to me now becomes the subject. Obscuring the overall image by highlighting one or several aspects of it. I think of this as a journal, a way of examining myself and searching for answers about who I am.
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