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| by Chad Cogdill |
Chad Cogdill is a ghost and he photographs Kansas City within the metaphoric Gaussian blur of this amorphous tempo. He stalks it's hulking, concrete creatures with the same intensity that a Zen master stalks peacefulness. His best images speak a multi-layered perversity with our urban surroundings and purvey the dichotomy of the city as a constant & immovable force and the city as a slowly decaying corpse. This Titan-like struggle happening entirely within the small confines of a digital light box.
Old world meets computer chips. That Cogdill's world. A world which dissipates into line, color (or most likely lack of it) contrast and geometric shapes. The ghost & the starkness. An artist looking for something in the silence and distance...
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| by Chad Cogdill |
Cogdill's lens captures the living of the non-living through the entropy evident in it's scars & it's persistent grayscale. His work culminating in a reimagining of a once-great city through a visual re-mapping of it's quiet downtown.
He wanders...shoots and wanders some more. His camera always the focus and contemplation and the city his muse.
Kansas City as muse.
Kansas City as phoenix-rising.
Kansas City in all it's beauty and it's unusual silence.
Chad Cogdill is it's ghost with a camera and his poetry is exposed one frame at a time.
-William Chaffin
Chad Cogdill's next photography exhibition is at the Plenum Space Gallery (504 E. 18th St, Kansas City) onSeptember 5, 2014
View Chad's work online here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/chad_cogdill/
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