Time Busted

Like many photographers, I seek out museums for inspiration, even more so on my travels. While wandering about, I often enjoy observing visitors - exhausted youngsters, coolly disengaged teens, herded tour groups, even selfie takers - a mindless diversion when taking a break from my own viewing experience. For me, sprawling world class museums offer the most entertainment, where time pressed visitors have a ‘must see’ strategy, and little time for secondary collections. While well known sculptural works always garner attention, busts and statues of unrecognized emperors or wealthy folks lined up on pedestals one after another usually get passed over.

Experimenting more with portraiture of late, while also spending time at many of these marvelous museums, I found myself slowly drawn in by these wonderfully expressive busts, ignored as they were. Awed by pieces ancient and less ancient, I began to appreciate the facial expressions, the hardened glance, showing through beyond the decay. Time Busted reflects my effort to go slow, take notice of these figures, wonder of their humanity, or perhaps their ignoble character, and portray them removed from time and place, without judgement.