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Jessica Todd Harper: Here (Hardcover)
Jessica Todd Harper; Interview by Russ Roberts; Text written by Bo Bartlett
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"A 'wrong' family moment that is full of truth." Like seventeenth
century Dutch painters who made otherwise ordinary interior scenes
appear charged with meaning, Jessica Todd Harper looks for the
worth in everyday moments. The characters in her imagery are the
people around her- her friends, herself, family- but it is not so
much they who are important as the way in which they are organized
and lit. A woman helping her child practice the piano is not a
particularly sacred moment but as in a Vermeer painting, the way
the composition and lighting influence the content suggests that
perhaps it is. Most of the time everyday scenes don’t mean
anything to us- in fact, it is a modern truism that we seek to be
distracted from them. We scroll through our phones rather than be
alone with our thoughts, our selves or even our families. This
collection of photographs makes use of what is right in front of
me, what is here, a place that many of us came to contemplate
especially during the pandemic. Beauty, goodness and truth can
reveal themselves in daily life, much like in Kant’s notion of
the Sublime or simply in the Dutch paintings of everyday domestic
scenes that are somehow lit up with purport. Our unexamined or even
boring surroundings can sometimes be illuminating.
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