Two Series: Acetabulum & Nearness Distanced to Presence
by Corey S. Frey
We can be so near to the world, ideas, and people but simultaneously estranged. The work that I'm attempting to make defamiliarizes just enough to reintroduce relational intimacy. In that way, obfuscation becomes a tool. The photographs (below) in this series obfuscate with proximity and optics. The paintings (above) work with the push and pull of representation and the simple fact of a painting and paint being an object.
The world is an odd place, full of all sorts of odd things. Pick one thing and consider it. Do you perceive its strangeness? But what about it could be strange? Is there another world with which we are more familiar? A world that we map over this one, to gain an equilibrium of understanding? Or, is it perhaps we are unaware of where we are?
Corey S. Frey is a visual artist, poet, musician, and art educator living in Middletown, MD, with his wife and two children. He also leads The Well Collaborative.
