J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Brea Souders
Episode #33 Summary
A fluid and expansive book of purposeful exploration into form, materiality and limitlessness of the photographic medium.
Episode Notes
A master weaver intersecting the past with the future, Brea Souders constructs visual analogies that expose the layered intermediaries of communication. Positing centuries-old existential questions, Souders discovers her own lexicon, creating a language built on correlation, random chance and fleeting reaction.
In this book group, Brea Souders, discusses, among other things:
How we experience images now
Establishing an economy of means in image-making
Allowing other viewpoints to influence your creative decisions
Accidential observation
Science influencing art by experimenting with an objective
Being in dialog with your work
The creative limbo when between bodies of work
The fluid intersections of analogy and digital processes
The iPhone as sketchbook
Referenced in the episode
Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photo by Kim Beil