The dramatic moment when, in the course in pursuit of the idealization of the
chance meeting of objects; the posit of a situation that has presented itself
might be more or less profound. Nevertheless, it is this chance occurrence
brought together in an abreactive manner that holds possibilities that might not
have had the opportunity to have been introduced otherwise left to their own
devices. It is, in fact, the re-introduction of the shoe, the rose, the string
of pearls, for example, which when brought into a scenario, become something
other than a shoe, rose, or pearls.
One evening while walking
to my studio, I happened upon the scene of what must have been a very
dramatically tragic accident. What was left were remnants of a horrible
instantaneous calamity; broken glass and automobile parts. I found, also, a
child�s dress-up shoe, a broken plastic flower, some pearls, a spoon, among
other things, and noticed some red-brown soaked stains in the pavement and
cement... blood.
Taking some fragments I began
to re-assemble them with other found objects in my possession, without any
preconcieved notion of their relationships, using a Polaroid camera as the
medium for the play-acts in this series of "Polaroids".
Richard Genovese 1988