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Robert Stone

SPE Member since 2018
Member Chapter: Northeast

Epilogue to Resonance

Situated in the American Northeast, Epilogue to Resonance challenges the internalized perception of what a home can be. Here, photographs of the accounts of live moments of emotional experience are intersected with disparate photographs of the landscape of American. I weave emotional equivalencies that resonate my own emotional affect during the making of the work. Epilogue to Resonance is also a coda to the thirty some-odd years that I have spent unsure of why I was unable to understand others, and why they were unable to understand me. It reflects a life spent with invisible barriers. Moreover, it parallels the end of a chapter in all of our lives—a time when we were free to roam without physical barriers. Although not directly about the occurrences of the 2020 pandemic, it represents the thoughts and emotional response I had to it. This work would not exist if it weren't for the forced isolation, anxiety, sadness, and introspection that occurred because of this global experience.

Titles of the works are often used to give a glimmer of what might be occurring, while leaving the intentioned viewer with the need to seek further through observation. A woman struggling with anxiety and memory loss, a tender moment of parent and child, the occurrence of God in the reflection of a pond, the strangeness of our own humanity reflected in the observation of neighbor's choice in lawn decor. These moments speak to the greater emotional states that we go through as we navigate our lives.

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