 | When Seattle photographer Chris Engman spoke recently of finding a heavy-equipment operator he could work with, he wasn’t referring to digging a trench or reshaping a driveway. The project he had in mind was artistic, building several huge gravel piles to photograph, then rotating the piles 135 degrees, and shooting them again against a drastically different background. The resulting photographic diptych, Dust to Dust, is one of a dozen or so stark, provoking, and surprising images of similarly labor-intensive constructions that explore the artist’s preoccupations with time, relativity, and illusion. KUOW art reviewer Gary Faigin joins us with his comments. |
