This set of images is a photographic study of my environment.
Walking through the neighborhood, I became aware of the haphazard stringing of wires. Wires and poles for electric power, cable television and telephone appeared everywhere, with seemingly no thought as to the visual pollution they were creating. My brain had been using a “filter” to ignore the poles and wires. Now, instead of an unobstructed view, I saw miles of wires, hundreds of poles.
While the brain is able to look past this visual mess, the camera is not. The camera has no opinion, no filter. The camera records the tangle of wires. These images speak of the ability of the brain to mask the ubiquitous and the inability of the camera to do so.
Michael Brohm
