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Arthur:
There is this anecdote to the decision which Robert
Frank made to concentrate solely on making films. He said that
he had lost his Leica camera, or it had been stolen. And he thought
that was a sign for him to move on, towards making something else,
which at the time was film.
For me, the decision to use other methods of art making was not
really a specific design but a reaction to my experience going through
the photography program at Yale. Which was still very much rooted
in "straight" photography---straight here is defined by
all of the idea making process done before the shutter was released
and recorded on film. I thought that to be the biggest limitation
to photography at the time. I still think it is to some degree now.
I didn’t like the fact that all of the decision making process
of a photograph is ended the moment the shutter button is released.
I wanted that process to continue on, which is why I continued on
other mediums like painting, video, sound, and so on.
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Arthur Ou, Pink to Purple, Thai Beach,
Instalation view, 2001.
Arthur Ou, Pink to Purple, Van,
Silver-Gelatin Print with Acrylic paint, 2001
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