Cassandra C. Jones
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Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco · 2009
From a vast collection of found and "hunted" photographs, Cassandra C. Jones builds collages and silent video loops that draw connections across how we make, share, and consume images in today's remix culture. Some works compile hundreds of amateur and professional snapshots of a single subject — lightning bolts, horses caught mid-jump — into studies of motion and non-linear narrative.
Other works move in the opposite direction, stripping a single photograph down to an isolated shape, then multiplying and arranging those forms so that singularity and multiplicity coexist within the same image.
WorksClick to enlarge
Lightning Drawing 1
Swarm
Iris
Lightning Drawing 2
Snow Ball
Disco Girl
Car Fire
Single Frame Animation #2
Fermata 3
Fermata 5
Press
“Jones' ‘Lightning Drawings' revive in 21st century terms the old Surrealist notion, with roots in psychoanalysis and mystical tradition, of a hidden order behind manifest reality that only the right sort of decoding or shakeup can reveal.”