A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that.
Roni HornEven in its darkness, it has this picturesque element. It's something about the human condition. It's not the water itself-it's humanity's relationship to water, because thatโs almost a human need, that water be a positive force.
Roni HornYou use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be.
Roni HornAs is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.
Roni HornI understand all the work to be of a nonabstract nature regardless of the style, form, or explicit subject matter because all the work... is concerned with evoking experiences that are in themselves - and their relationship to you, the viewer - the ultimate subject and content of the work. I want to equate the experience of the work with its meaning.
Roni Horn