Mark Jackson

“There’s a stream of light that runs through the future and back again/It penetrates the photographs I will make years from now and the ones I’ve made in the last days, in the last weeks and the last years/It ran through Laevo/Through Cylla, Soblu and Nexo/Trivel and Azu.

This light runs through time/My time/My history/And saturates my past/It shines back to a quiet street in the tiniest of Arkansas towns, to a street light just down the road and in sight of my bedroom window.

I would lay in bed staring at this lamp post/Leaves of summertime danced in front of it /Rain poured around it/The light glowed blue, and quiet/Worlds were born.

This light awakened my imagination/This was my first time to see light/To see beauty.

I was 9 years old.” Mark Jackson

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Mark’s photographs are generally focused around places, the human figure and curious objects. They walk a delicate line between the abstract and the real.

Mark has spent the last several years developing an ink suspension technique for making his photographs on large panels. The process is complex and destructive, giving the image a painterly quality.

The European Cultural Center's exhibition, "A SOUTH FORTY: Contemporary Architecture and Design in the American South" at the Palazzo Mora in Venice Biennale Alley.