John Shockey

BIRTH:
27-OCT-57
PLACE OF BIRTH:
Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S.A.

OBSERVATIONS:

The term "observation" as defined by Merriam-Webster is an act of recognizing and noting a fact or occurrence often involving measurement with instruments". As the definition of the term observation infers, the act of noting a fact often involves an instrument of measurement. The camera is my instrument of visual notation that supports my metaphorical thinking and insights while the Internet offers a framework to contain them ().

The Web site Observations: conceptual writings and visuals (.html) is a site where I periodically publish these insights and is an alternative to the artist notebook with each entry being a conceptual sketch. The site could be considered a blog in terms of the Internet, containing insular thoughts versus daily drawn out discourses. They are short passages of inspiration that are often formed while hiking in nature. "Transformation" was inspired while hiking on an island off the coast of Maine and is supplemented with written word explaining the premise of the images.

My most complete series of photographs are from an island off the coast of Maine called Criehaven, documented during a three-y...