kayl parker

the very thing. i am now a regular contributor to a new art and culture blog written entirely by artists and those surrounded by art itself. hope you guys like it! -kayl

this is my newest work in progress. these are scans from 35mm prints, so its just my rough sketch out of what i want to start with. obviously, the scanned negatives will provide much clearer and crisper images. and will be completely void of all these weird magenta and blue casts.

my father is in the military, so my family moves quite a bit. after i graduated high school, my parents were sent to a tiny town in pennsylvania, which i became slightly connected to due to the short vacations i spent away from chicago at “home.” now they live in columbus, georgia. a few of my friends from high school were stationed here before and always raved about how much they loved it here. in an attempt to personally connect myself with the town, i’ve been exploring different areas and neighborhoods. by taking pictures and generating a surplus of images, i hope i can come to find why people love it here so much.

how does one call a place they do not dwell home? is it possible to have more than one place to call home? is home just a set of people and familiar objects?

kp

i think the title of the book itself speaks a lot about the content within it. this is my second draft, a 8.5x11in softcover perfect-bound book with 38 pages. there are a few spreads i need to alter before ordering a final (that will be for sale via the website.)

the idea behind the project is still growing, and i feel by continuously posting blog posts about it, the subject becomes redundant. but by opting to write an abundance of comments about the project, i’m hoping to gain a greater understanding of why it has become so fascinating to me. why do we build walls? what is it to dwell? it is difficult to answer all the questions this project has proposed for me, but i think i’ll start by stating that we build to dwell, and our dwelling places become tangents and reflections of us once we engage in the act of dwelling.

i also definitely see this project expanding, so i’m not sure if a final book will be printed for a long while. this subject, the subject of trying to find what i like about houses and their structures and potentially “building” a house out of the pictures i accumulate over time is a subject i see myself working on for a long time, not just because of the possibilities it proposes, but also because i am continually interested in.

kp