An Architecture of Space- Kaleidoscope

-Kristine Thoreson

I stand alone,

the space in front of me charged as if with anticipation. I see myself now from someplace else.

I am perhaps in the picture—already a part of the scene
that is playing out.

Now in the daylight, at the water’s edge;

in my mind’s eye I see myself as I have been in other places,
at other times, and

I photograph what is in front of me from that memory—re-creating
the reverie of that moment,

searching for and exploring with narrowed vision the hazy atmosphere
of a moment’s day-dream.

Each time, each image is the result of a perception of space,

I am waiting, anticipating;

it is loaded with narrative potential.

They are photographs that invite an introspection—a moment
through which to step inside,

or at least to approach—unsure of what might unfold in the mind
or in the space depicted.

There is a theatricality to life, and a potential to space
in exploration

photographs become not merely a mirror or window to look through,

but in sequence and en masse they form narratives

through fragmentation, repetition, and association—from one image to another, between an image and a memory,

or an image and its own refraction.