The other day I picked up a reference in an email from the French L’Oeil de la Photographie website to some work by a Chinese American artist that has some similarities to the work that I did for Assignment 3.  Journey Gong, of whom I had not heard before, has made a series of images titled Viewpoint that shows benches looking out onto panoramic views, mostly over the sea.  Whereas my sequence focused on the benches and juxtaposed them with the views visible from them, Gong’s work shows the benches as part of the view.  The views themselves are, as with my set, fairly nondescript; apart from distant hills and the line of the horizon, there is not much more to see.  While it is far from explicit, I guess that he was exploring issues similar to those that I was looking at in my work, judging from the last line of the brief accompanying text:  “This is where nothing happened, everything yet to take place”.

Looking at his website, I cannot say that his work moves me much at all.  This sequence though does appeal, even if only because of the visual and ‘theoretical’ background (if I have interpreted the work correctly) similarities to my own work.

https://www.journeygong.com/#/viewpoint/

https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/journey-gong-df/?ct=t%28Newsletter+EN+10102020%29

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