Lloyd Lowe Jr.

Artist Statement: Archetypes Series

In American society access to the internet is virtually ubiquitous.

Google and Photoshop have become verbs.

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Blogging, posting, and social networking are now common cures for ennui.

When will these factors collide’ What will be the effects’

This series is an attempt to answer these questions through visual experimentation.
Using what I have come to call the “reciprocity of information” as a theoretical starting point, (At what point does the information we create become the information we believe’), I set out to answer these questions in as controlled a manner as an ever-changing, equivocal internet environment would allow.

By formulaically merging a systematically selected sampling of photographs appropriated from controlled internet searches, using strict selection criteria, and drawing on the core of visual assimilation and understanding by using archetypes as the search terms for the photographs, I have created images that invite viewers to ask the question: are we affecting our visual understanding through overload and misinformation’ The final images allow us a glimpse into whether the photographs we retrieve from the internet are reinforcing or redefining classic archetypes.

An extended artist statement with formula description and research data is available upon request.

Lloyd Lowe Jr.

Artist statement: On the Rocks

In Camera Lucida Roland Barthes tells us that the “noeme” of photography, the essence and mystery of photography, is that photographs are and always will be “that which has been”.

Sometimes things just have to be done; sometimes you just need some “proof”.
This is mine.

Please look. Understand what you can, enjoy the artistry, indulge the emotion, but please, please do not glamorize this.

Drugs are death. If you or someone you love has a drug problem, get help. People do recover.