ReViewal

(Postcard)

Decommisioned military sites are re-purposed as necessary. In this documentary landscape image, the distillation of the environment offers a description that catalogs evidence without proofs, featuring the implied design of intentions versus the actual forms of incidents.

The importance of the picture to the imagery is that the imagery is so recurring, that showing it once is the same as seeing the place repeatedly -- before, now, and again. That takes the picture beyond being "descriptive" to being "prescriptive", particularly for those who have never seen the place before.

In surveying the property, some viewers will see the "potential" in it while others will see the deficiency. The shot of the place is sensitive to timing: right now the place could go either way.

But in the picture it will always be that way, going neither way, which separates its preentation from its reality.

Treasure Island, CA

(Copyright 2011 Malcolm Ryder)