The Other Side of 8
On Location with Don Julien
Closing reception with the artist, January 27, 2022 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Find the empty spaces for something to add, to be completed, received, repaired, occupied, disinfected, organized. But these are not our rooms, our seats, basketball hoops, swings, coats, windowsills or doorways. They are someone else’s choices, someone else’s curation, neglect, detritus, environs, comfort zones, dens of repose. Who are we—the viewers—to suggest improvement? Thanks to Don, we are the imagining eye, the roving critic, the complicit voyeur, the prize recipients. With most every photograph (of the trillions made and seen), we allow ourselves to believe that a collection of ink dots or pixels or silver halide crystals are really something more than just that. And sometimes, we let the photographer look around corners for us, to get in closer to the cracks in the walls, the hung coat, the stains on the mattress. We don’t often do this kind of looking ourselves and certainly not in places that are unfamiliar. We trust artists to do this on our behalf and to report back to us on their findings, their interpretations of what’s lurking out there that we often miss.
According to Don: The way I see it, the act of creating photographs is slowing down time or ignoring it completely. Most of the images in this collection were taken on distant film locations. They were made away from home in unfamiliar places. One of the great pleasures of the film making process is location scouting. Days, sometimes weeks, are spent in odd towns, looking through the homes of strangers, checking out their kitchens and bedside tables, touring their backyards, and learning the topography of a foreign land. Essentially, peering into the lives of others. There is a universal familiarity in all things unique. Someone once described an image to me as feeling like a distant memory that never occurred.
Don Julien lives and works in New York City. A member of the Director’s Guild of America since 1998, he has worked as an Assistant Director and Producer on studio and independent feature films, episodic television, music videos, and commercials. His photographic work is directly related to and influenced by his work in the film industry. We are excited to welcome him and his artistry back to Cleveland, his birthplace.
all work available for purchase:
16 x 20 $775
20 x 30 $1050
