Dead Reckoning
The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
January-May 2021
Dead reckoning as a means of navigation is obsolete. As a means of determining the value of a variable quantity it is fraught with errors. It assumes an unknown change that can’t be accurately defined. Animals use dead reckoning when foraging in order to find their way home.
It is a good way to get lost.
I like to think of these photographs as the result of bad directions, a means of meandering through the unknown, of trespassing into the heart of the world’s byways. A sort of intercontinental drift. An exploration of vision and medium in a quest for knowledge and meaning.
This exhibit is a result of editing thirty five years of that work. Culled from images that often did not end up living in some defined project. I have sprinkled in a large number of the widows and orphans of my work in a way that a friend told me was like filling the “spaces between.” I still believe that one can wander without being lost, that new discoveries are still available. Dead Reckoning didn’t end up with my getting lost, more so that I was found.
I am honored to be having this retrospective show at The Light Factory, and pleased to announce that it will have an extended run due to Covid. I am proud to be sharing the space with Joshua Galloway and his body of work "In the Line of Sight."
The Light Factory has presented a series of Zoom talks and conversations; They were recorded and can be viewed here:
Virtual walk-through of my exhibition "Dead Reckoning" at The Light Factory. 2021
Artist’s in conversation: Bryce Lankard and Joshua Galloway, moderated by De’Angelo Dia.
I have also created a limited edition book as a compendium to the exhibition. For a video preview or to oder the book click here.
