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- Caleb Cole
ARTIST'S
STATEMENT
At the heart of my work is a fascination with ambiguities and
inconsistencies, an interest in how I go about negotiating areas
of grey and how others manage to do the same.
When I am in public, I watch people going about their daily
routines alone; I wonder about the lives they lead, wonder what
I can tell about their internal world solely from their clothing
and mannerisms.
I spend time inventing stories for them: narratives of isolation,
of questioning and searching, of desire, and of confusion. The
images in Other People's Clothes are momentary fragments of these
stories.
Each photograph in the series is a constructed scene that begins
with an outfit or piece of clothing (either bought, found, or
borrowed), then a person that I imagine to fill those clothes,
and finally a location where that person can play out a silent
moment alone.
This moment is the time right before something changes, the
holding in of a breath and waiting, the preparing oneself for
what is to come.
By inhabiting other people's clothes I can tell their stories,
can make portraits of people I have never met but whose strange
and contradictory lives feel as familiar as my own. |