“Photographic artists are reconsidering the potential of a photograph with a shift to making rather than taking photographs. By using vintage and contemporary photographs as a starting point artists create physically layered works of art that result in an object, often in reaction to the flood of ubiquitous imagery that digital and cell phone technology has afforded.”

 - Aline Smithson, editor, educator and interdisciplinary artist

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John Woodruff’s newest series creates a world of fragmented images that challenges the notion of what a photograph ought to be. We are immersed in images that come at us from all directions, and virtually all of them have no significance with one another. They are in essence a stream of disparate consciousness. Our experience is what makes sense of them as they vie for our attention attempting to teach us, lie to us, excite us, provide or deny clarity and create vicarious realities which dubiously attempt to define our world.