Thank you to Elin Spring from “What Will You Remember” for the write up of “This Is Bliss”, on view at the Griffin Museum of Photography until March 1, 2020.
Horvath’s images, too, are individually straightforward – a man lost in thought by the roadside, a lone dog trotting alongside a lit building at night – but develop into a complex assessment. Black and white views like “Skipping Stones Across the Snake River Canyon (after Evel),” “Points of Entry, Points of Exit, NSEW” or a grid of wet-plate collodion frames alternating between tumbleweed and beer bottles collected from a highway turnoff convey the paradoxical sensation of time passing and standing still. A seemingly apt metaphor for life in Bliss.
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