thomas w kuppler

MA Photography at CSM in 2014 My photography strives to understand the dichotomy between the visible and the invisible. Through methodological experimentation I offer the viewer opportunities to perceive and to detect, sense and discover ‘the invisible’ lurking behind obscure textures, surfaces and appearances. The tensions that arise within my work serve the viewer only ambiguously, simultaneously engaging the audience with an experience of revelation and concealment. My approach tends toward the poetic, cultivating linguistic nuance, even as this is balanced by a control of conceptual and theoretical rigor. A tendency to abstraction is a natural consequence of these explorations. Borders between photograph, painting and object become fluid, themselves approaching invisibility. The invisible photograph: Maybe we should start rethinking to understand this question, which in itself is a perplexity. If you depict an image, it becomes visible from the moment of its depiction. So where does that leave the idea of the invisible photograph? Possibly taking it into two different directions: either looking at the latent image, which most of the time is invisible, or looking at the notion of defining anything, which is in the boundaries of a frame, as a photograph. Still if we stick to that notion, it is still visible, we might though not see it as a photograph, but rather as a framed depiction, a framed object, or as framed world of which we are part of and where the horizon is the limit of visibility, replacing the function of a frame – making it again into a photograph. Looking at this, anything and everything can be a photograph – meaning the obvious visible becomes invisible to the mind and therefore an invisible photograph – a latent image.© t.w.kuppler