Documenting our Landscape

Publishing an image creates a certain vulnerability through the “I” of the signature. Yet, even as the image is signed one is separated from the creative act of making the image in the first place. In effect by acknowledging the “I” in the work one is saying loudly and clearly, “Here it is, my work. I make no excuses, no alibis, I take responsibility for the work you see!” But the work is no longer mine. I have relinquished control of the creative process by claiming creation of a finished work. I have done my job. Even the act of reproducing the image for a limited edition run is a mere technical act of redoing what has already been done and not creating something new. My work is in the creation, my response-ability is to the process of creation.