Scott and Kim Anderson's Backyard, Hartford City, Indiana appeared in the
Joyce Elaine Grant 2016 Exhibition in January. The theme? Food. The photograph? Cake. I was happy to share an award with
Amelia Morris whose canned goods in the image above are making me hungry.
One of the self-portraits in
this juried exhibition will be traveling to LightBox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, Oregon and the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts
. Here is the text that accompanies the photograph:
I spent three weeks
in the Fall of 2013 printing one page of all the fonts that featured a pound
sign in Microsoft Word. During lab days when my students were working on their
projects, I painstakingly cut each one apart, ending with an estimated 30,804
(my cat may have eaten a few). The goal was to draw attention to the overuse of
the hashtag in social media by creating a photograph where they dominated, yet
ultimately revealed nothing more than an element of disguise.
