November 5
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Opening & Artist's Reception
Camera Obscured
by Paul Bloomfield
Fine & Performing Arts Chair
D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts
Springfield, Massachusetts

“I seek a visual situation that can momentarily suspend the historic or assumed reality of its contents by asking the viewer to consider formal aspects. In this way, aesthetics: color, shape, tone, and figuration, become the means to understanding the final image. During this process of looking and discovering, fragments and layers become a visual parallel to how we perceive information with shifts in memory and meaning. At different times and places in our lives, memories and images change in significance – some are lost, some imprinted, but many change their shape and meaning with time. While the past shapes the present, the present can determine how the past is viewed, especially the images of this series. Inherent in the photographic process of this body of work is the back and forth between determining the contents of the image, clarity and obscurity, completion and fragmentation.”