Bill Prickett Artist
Statement
I focus a great deal
of attention on the relationship between color, time, motion and subject matter
and regard my photographs as interactions and intersections.
In 2nd grade I noticed
the color comics were printed out of register by mistake. At that point I
discovered how the primary colors were supposed to overlap and blend
together...but didn't. That would become the start of a lifelong fascination.
As a student, I loved
the 70s album covers because they expressed the artist and music along with
their interactions and journeys throughout their world. The
photography, graphics and color communicated everything...story, mood,
emotion...tone. The album cover was the billboard and "home page" of
the day.
Though I studied film
and photography it was the Beatles and Rolling Stones that were the most
absorbing. Steichen, Picasso, Godard and Rodin taught me aesthetics while John,
Paul, Mic and Kieth taught me energy and style. My brain did the rest.
Over the course of the
last decade’s technologies, my work has addressed it's surroundings both
physical and non physical…always considering what gets put on social media as
important as what is put on a wall. What goes into a frame is as important as
what goes into a framework.
