Artist Statement
The images that I create are fictional spaces--they depict locations constructed from portions of my photographs and elements taken from found snapshots and family photos, and explore the space where memory, history, culture, and myth overlap in the landscape-as-image.
For me, these images are an atavistic response to the landscape, one that engages the land as a site for malignant or indifferent natural forces. Even so, these photographs touch on the landscape as a nostalgic articulation of our histories, a history made impossible by memory and mythology.
Process Statement
My working method is a process of collecting, deconstructing, and reassembling photographic material--of collapsing multiple points in time and space into a single cohesive scene. The collaged use of the source material mirrors the fragmenting and flattening of experience that happens with both myth and memory while reflecting a sense of dislocation from the land.
Jeremy Dyer was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1980. He received his BFA degree the University of Arizona and his MFA from Parsons School for Design in New York City. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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