Way back in July, 2017, I read an article in the New York Times that immediately grabbed my interest. It was about an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art titled “Talking Pictures: Camera-Phone Conversations Between Artists”. The curator of the exhibit, Mia Fineman, had become intrigued by the dialogue that is possible between two people who exchange images with no accompanying text. In this case, she invited pairs of artists to create an image-sharing conversation with their smartphones that kept going back and forth. Some used their favorite creative medium (drawing, painting, video, etc.) and photographed the results, while others used straight photographs. The pictorial results were shown at the Met, and I only wish that I had been able to see the show.
I have always been intrigued by how photographs “speak” to viewers, and the idea of a visual back-and-forth like the one in this exhibit totally grabs me. I already do a version of this on Snapchat with my kids, but it would be exciting to dig into it with another visual artist.