Todd Behrendt
A poor person posing with junkyard dog, an aerial photograph of architecture and a big horn ram.
silver gelatin print
2009
14"x 11"
Todd Behrendt
An unmade bed, a sink full of dishes and cherry blossoms in bloom.
silver gelatin print
2009
14"x 11"
Todd Behrendt
A landscape of moon (full) and tree (dead), an angry transvestite wearing makeup and an elderly couple holding hands at sunset.
silver gelatin print
2009
14"x 11"
This new series of work is concerned with addressing the fragile state of the American psyche in this new post-economic collapse era of information. The instantaneous and aggressive dissemination of fact and opinion pressures the psyche into the formulation of an immediate reaction. This response can be cynicism, apathy or simple presumption, along with emotional states such as paranoia and fear. The demand creates further frustration and leads to greater factionalizing along class and party lines. In these prints, I utilize graphs without quantitative relevance, statistics without significant information, sentences without context, and figures without faces. In a purely visual sense, my aim is composition versus disorder; positive versus negative. Conceptually, these elements contribute to the notion of confusion and frustration in the information age.
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