September 10 – October 16, 2022
Opening: Saturday, Sep 17, 5:30 – 8pm
PROOF OF EVERYTHING AND NOTHING AT ALL
Peter J. Ketchum
With found, repurposed photos as a central element, Peter J. Ketchum’s mixed media works are visual meditations on mortality and immortality – on morality and immorality.
For the artist photographs are proof. They are visual evidence of our having been here. Whether an 1850’s daguerreotype, a cabinet card, arcade photo, or a modern selfie, a photo is proof of our existence. It preserves our image and action for future generations.
In making most of these works an enlargement of a found black and white image or graphic was altered by Ketchum. Something was added here or deleted there. He then colored them with acrylics, pens, markers, photo dyes, pencils and/or paint pens, they collaged them into a larger, mixed media work.
“My art is a collaboration with unknown photographers and subjects. The people in the pictures, made anonymous by time and negligence, lived in a moment as impermanent and ethereal as we do. Like all of us, they smiled bravely at the camera… SNAP! CLICK!
And were gone.” Peter J. Ketchum
www.fivemyles.org
Gallery hours are 1-6pm, Thurs.-Sun.
