moving on the edges of things
2005, Chromogenic Print, 49 x 49 inches
it turns into nothing on his tongue
2005, Chromogenic Print, 49 X 49 inches
the chaos of warm things
2006, Chromogenic Print, 47.5 x 47.5 inches
as you turn to go
2005, Chromogenic Print, 25 x 25 inches
same sun
2007, Chromogenic Print, 15 x 15 inches
family to go through
2006, Chromogenic Print, 29 x 29 inches
unfolding in pieces
2006, Chromogenic Print, 49 x 49 inches
missing art
2007, Chromogenic Print, 23 x 23 inches
making way for the next thing to touch the ground near you
2007 Chromogenic Print, 27 x 27 inches
although she held both ends tightly
2006, Chromogenic Print, 29 x 29 inches
drawing day for night
2008, Silver Gelatin Print, 39.875 x 39.875 inches
Augusta Wood’s Text Series proposes a collapse and collusion of real and imagined space. Wood assembles scenes for the camera based on memory, with interventions incorporating text from her ongoing collection of phrases culled from novels, personal writings, and conversations. The scenes range from the domestic to landscape, sites both private and public, personal and anonymous. These photographic works use language as a gauge against which both literal and figurative value is read. The images complicate the distinction between visual and written forms, drawing, language and document. While relying on the failure to completely entwine image and text, each picture also forces them to remain inseparable.
These photographs are collectively true and fictional, both record and construction, referential and solicitous.