That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than
his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.
Edward Gordon Craig
What the hell are we supposed to do with theater documentation anyway?
It’s the corpse of the thing, the empty bottle, the setlist scrawled on a napkin after the venue’s already been bulldozed. This Craig quote: “one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen”, that’s the whole sick joke of it. You can’t record what happened in that room. The electricity, the dread in that title playing out in real time, the way bodies move through space when everything’s charged with intent and menace.
I, the photographer see it, sure. Freeze the moment. But the seeing more and the recording more are two different animals eating each other’s tails. What I’ve left you with is evidence of an event you’ll never attend, proof of something that only existed for the people breathing that air. The rest of you just get the crime scene photos and the theater’s assertion that yeah, harm was definitely meant here.
If you need more proof that you weren’t there, that you missed the whole goddamn thing, ☞ click here☜ for the rest of the autopsy photos.