TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY K.B. DIXON
As a photographer I am interested in people, places, and things. These interests do not change with sequestration, but the opportunity to pursue them does. When the people one is sequestered with do not want to be photographed and the places one is sequestered in tend to be private rather than public, one is forced to rely almost exclusively on things.
This particular collection of photographs is the product of the Covid-19 crisis—a crisis that has forced a street, documentary, and portrait photographer to spend more time than usual indoors. It is a radically edited inventory of household goods, of objects near and sometimes dear—the utilitarian, the talismanic, and the decorative. Each item, of course, has its own story. For example, the magnifying glass. It was purchased twenty years ago to help an aging lexophile negotiate the microscopic print of a cheap, compact edition of the OED—a dictionary where one can find the words “mundane” and “miraculous” sitting almost side by side.
PITCHER, 2020
WOODEN BOX, 2020
FINIAL, 2020
METRONOME AND BASEBALL, 2020
DRIED FLOWERS, 2020
POTTERY, 2020
MAGNIFYING GLASS AND VASE, 2020
STONE CARVING (H. MWASHUSHA), 2020
