BOXING 1998 - 2004
Boxing work is inspired by a strong family interest in sports, particularly boxing. Although the encounters in the ring are violent and brutal, there is a strange human urgency between the meeting of flesh and voice, both inside and outside the squared ring. Through a process of combining flashback memories, national archive film footage and frequent visits to one of the last boxing gyms open on the east side of Saint Paul, the working class area of my youth, this work was created. In the images, I was interested in making the speed of the punch or fall slowed to consider and observe the moment of collision. The photograph printing process includes both traditional silver prints on cotton canvas and digitally manipulated film stills printed on both fine art archival paper and chromogenic prints which use a light sensitive digital process.
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