Peter Drechsler
Drawings|Paintings|Photographs
The series "In transit" is beginning to develop a life of its own. I consciously distance myself from the classical function of photography. Or from the expectations placed upon it. I don't want to capture, clarify, or prove anything. Instead, I dissolve, shift, let things slip througho&emdash;as they feel to me when I'm traveling on public transport. Public transport is actually a highly organized system: lines, timetables, displays, destinations. Everything is meant to provide orientation. But it's precisely this orientation that shifts for me. Text becomes light, information becomes movement, people become traces. I no longer see the place, but the state I'm in within it. I don't photograph to show where I am. I photograph to show what it feels like to be there. In the process, names, directions, and clear forms disappear. What remains is something approximate, something fleeting—a moment between arriving and moving on, between perceiving and losing. The images are not representations to me, but rather remnants of experience. Perhaps that is closer to reality than a sharp image could ever be.
In transit.
In transit.
In transit.
In transit.
In transit.
In transit.
In transit.
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