Visual and Archival Resources Assistant
Photography
Film/Video
About
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Photography is a mechanical process that captures time itself. While we often think of time as linear, this is not necessarily the case. In The Order of Time, physicist Carlo Rovelli suggests that the universe is not built from static particles, but from the events that occur between them. If this is true, then we ourselves are events—defined not by permanence, but by constant change. This notion is echoed in the quiet rhythms of the natural world: the shifting arc of the sun, the slow transformation of the seasons. Through photographing gimpses at these transitions, I attempt to step outside the structures of constructed society and return to something more elemental. It is a search for clarity in the impermanent, a way of seeing ourselves as part of the living fabric of time.
My mother has a wall full of scrapbooks, each of them filled with hundreds of photographs. Some are captioned with the location and event. I look at all the memories taped together that construct the story of our family. I realize, however, that these are not memories. They are photographs. They are objects. Memories and photographs are products of a moment and while photographs capture that time, memories continue to change. They are a victim of time and under the influence of other memories.
Collected here are the places and people in my life. It could be my childhood bedroom, close friends who have grown apart, or a street I drive on every day. These passing moments from my life morph together and seep into my subconscious. They alter how the other moments are perceived, and my mind never stops reevaluating those spaces and those people. I do not remember them in a specific instance, but rather through my experiences that morph together over time. These ideas of these spaces and the people in my life will forever be in a constant state of evolution.
Howell Lewis has trained boxers at Lewis Boxing Gym since 1983.
2016-2017
Zack Neuman is a Kansas City based visual artist and film archivist. He is currently the Visual & Archival Resources Assistant at the Kansas City Art Institute. He graduated from The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation Certificate Program at the George Eastman Museum and Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and a minor in Film Studies. He has been part of various programs such as the Nelson-Atkins Photography Scholars Program. Over the Summer of 2019, he served as an intern at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C. for the Division of Public Programs.