Miscelaneous | Photos by Tav Falco
| Miscelaneous | Photos by Tav Falco |
Tav is also a photographer - photos by Tav Falco :
Preacher in Memphis
Burnside Honky Tonk
Eighty Two Miles
Hernando's Hideaway
Thrall Tavern
Hay Bale
Pat's Pizza
Most of the work that engages me is in performance and in recording mediums, namely sound & picture : moving pictures & still pictures. Admitedly i have fallen under the spell of Expressionism in art & cinéma. When i made the transitions from Memphis to Buenos Aires to New York and finally to Paris two years ago, i no longer could afford to put film in my camera. Still feeling a need for picture taking & picture making, i opened a tiny box of colored pencils that i had acquired during my months in Argentina. With these colors i began to apply lines & figures to the cheapest pulp paper i could find at the papeterie. Having little formal training in drawing (other than earning my living when a student posing as a model in artists’ drawing classes in Arkansas and in Dallas, Texas), i simply attacked the paper with these basic colors to render images drawn from internal memory or from dream like encounters with my direct surroundings. Although, i work with photographic materials, i am not interested in making drawings directly from viewing photographs. A drawing has to emerge from a haunted interior place in the mind & it must be conjured from the dark waters of the unconscious. A drawing has a life of its own… a mirror , however distorted, of interior perceptions. For me, a drawing has nothing much to do with color theory & exposition of technique. It is a simple literary, non-intellectual manifestation of an experience, of a feeling… the residual ambience & afterimage of a person, or a set of rooms, or a staircase, or a corridor howling with ghosts." (Tav Falco for the exhibition Observatori 2003 at Valencia)
Van Zula - Jelly Sellin' Woman
Mother
the Burnettes (girls in Panther Burns)
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