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Access Doors 1996
Artist's
Biography
Mark Citret has always been intrigued by the
everyday wonders of the visual world. The
sense of expansive awareness that for Citret
is a prerequisite to photography enables him
to capture the small everyday flashes of insight
that come when we are open to them and often
go before we can fully grasp or appreciate
them. Sights that most of us tend not to notice—a
weathered phone book, an empty bulletin board,
a twisted chain link fence—seem full of meaning,
made spectacular and somehow poignant through
his eye. Citret’s images are a sort of meditation
in seeing; though they rarely contain human
forms, they are powerful testaments to the
relationship between human presence and transitory
nature. Fascinated from his earliest work
with the delicate nuances possible in black
and white, his work with vellum paper allows
him to convey the ideas of softer ranges in
his work. Luminous and warm, the vellums heighten
the sense of everyday epiphany found in his
images. |
