John Pascarella
American Standard
My present body of work, “American Standard”, focuses on the individual within the American culture as a story telling animal. In addition, this work questions our culture’s acceptance of the photographic image and its relation to other media. Through the use of implied narrative in each photographic image, the viewer is left to question all accounts of their being. One begins to understand that, regardless of the form, all accounts or recounts constitute story. These stories we tell each other and ourselves are all in hopes of establishing a meaningful life-world. Such stories have within them a narrator, cast of characters, conflicts, and resolutions, all telling a bigger story of the American condition. The end question being; how much of ourselves is real and how much is hyper-real?
