EXHIBITION
JANUARY – MAY 21
Dead Reckoning: Bryce Lankard
CLOSING RECEPTION
Friday, May 21 / 6 – 8:30 PM
Dead Reckoning is a thirty-five-year retrospective exhibition culled from images “that often did not end up living in some defined project.”
“I have sprinkled in a large number of the widows and orphans of my work in a way that a friend told me was like filling the “spaces between.”
ARTIST STATEMENT
Dead reckoning as a means of navigation is obsolete. As a means of determining the value of a variable quantity, it is fraught with errors. It assumes an unknown change that can’t be accurately defined. Animals use dead reckoning when foraging in order to find their way home.
It is a good way to get lost.
I like to think of these photographs as the result of bad directions, a means of meandering through the unknown, of trespassing into the heart of the world’s byways. A sort of intercontinental drift. An exploration of vision and medium in a quest for knowledge and meaning.
This exhibit is a result of editing thirty-five years of that work. Culled from images that often did not end up living in some defined project. I have sprinkled in a large number of the widows and orphans of my work in a way that a friend told me was like filling the “spaces between.” I still believe that one can wander without being lost, that new discoveries are still available. “Dead Reckoning” didn’t end up with my getting lost, more so that I was found.
EXHIBITION
JANUARY – MAY 21
Dead Reckoning: Bryce Lankard
Dead Reckoning is a thirty-five-year retrospective exhibition culled from images “that often did not end up living in some defined project.”
“I have sprinkled in a large number of the widows and orphans of my work in a way that a friend told me was like filling the “spaces between.”
ARTIST STATEMENT
Dead reckoning as a means of navigation is obsolete. As a means of determining the value of a variable quantity, it is fraught with errors. It assumes an unknown change that can’t be accurately defined. Animals use dead reckoning when foraging in order to find their way home.
It is a good way to get lost.
I like to think of these photographs as the result of bad directions, a means of meandering through the unknown, of trespassing into the heart of the world’s byways. A sort of intercontinental drift. An exploration of vision and medium in a quest for knowledge and meaning.
This exhibit is a result of editing thirty-five years of that work. Culled from images that often did not end up living in some defined project. I have sprinkled in a large number of the widows and orphans of my work in a way that a friend told me was like filling the “spaces between.” I still believe that one can wander without being lost, that new discoveries are still available. “Dead Reckoning” didn’t end up with my getting lost, more so that I was found.
