I finally started to get my photography groove back this week after a trip to Olympia last weekend and to some warehouses on Monday. While in the Olympia museum I became nostalgic for the photographs in my old art history textbooks from college. I spent hours distracted by the photographs of ancient statues (and, yes, I realize, in hindsight, that this was politically problematic behavior and of course, I know now that they were painted and so on, but I was 18 or 19 and didn’t really understand how hegemonic my gaze was at that moment). For some reason, I tried to recreate those images in my photographs. Hopefully these come across as nostalgic rather than promoting some kind of imperialist, Classical gaze, but perhaps these two things aren’t really separate. For some reason architecture feels less fraught in our current climate. Mostly these were just fun photos. I took a few photos at the dig house too.
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