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Michael E. Northrup’s most extensive body of work to date, bringing together images produced between 1972 and 2004, across more than three decades. It moves through a poetic, oniric, and unstable movement, where images accumulate through fragmentation and discontinuity, hallucinating a broken narrative.
Northrup’s visual language is rooted in daily life, filtered through irony and a precise sensitivity to the absurd embedded within the ordinary, unfolding through an editorial approach that moves across contact sheets, experiments, in-betweens of in-betweens, fragments within fragments, allowing the archive to exist as a living, breathing monster.
The book is structured in chapters, Fragments One, Rehearsal of Truth, Fragments Two, The Tuning Path, Beguiling the Hours, Mind Flowers, each borrowing its title from a song, gradually changing tone as it moves forward. It grows louder as it goes…
“I love irony… not exclusively, but I have a special appreciation for it. And it underlies a lot of my work. I must have been especially influenced by my mother who would laugh at news stories like, ‘Santa looses fingers while stepping off helicopter to wave at kids’. During the 50’s my older brother told me all the science fiction and horror movies we were seeing were documentaries. And my dad, being a doctor, surgeon, and coroner, would bring humor to the dinner table on things like bowel obstructions and suicides. My whole family was great at extracting humor out of tragedy and that has given me a way of seeing life. For me creating images is all about my daily life, those meaningful pictures I’m able to extract from it, and the personal photographic vision I bring to those visual narratives.”
