Words and Images: Jill Mathis and Caleb Cain Marcus
2005
21st century
16 in. x 20 in. (40.64 cm x 50.8 cm)
Caleb Cain Marcus,
American,
b. 1978
Object Type:
Photographs
Creation Place:
North America, United States
Medium and Support:
digital chromogenic prints on paper
Credit Line:
Carleton College Art Collection, gift of Arthur D. Kowaloff, class of 1968
Accession Number:
2007.001.12
Jill Mathis introduction:
One of the most interesting characteristics of our modern culture has been the intensive, almost compulsive collaboration between practitioners of the word and practitioners of the image. We live in a world inundated with composite pictorial-verbal forms (films, television, newspapers) but we see the most sophisticated example of this collaboration in the world of art. This project is about this collaboration but it is more than just optical phraseology. The fundamental ground finds its base in etymology and through the symbiotic fusion of words and images, the work becomes a semantic, syntactic, communicative effort that encodes messages, recounts history, expresses ideas and captures emotions.
Caleb Cain Marcus introduction:
The honesty of his vision removes the gauze from reality unveiling its beautiful and mysterious undertones. He brings us through the lens to a place where myth and reality become inexorably entangled and without distinction. Here the images evoke a primal memory of the unexplainable, which flows through and connects all things. They resonate with a poetic light, which invites us into the space and allows us to explore it on our own terms.