Lost Contact Lens
1979
Photographs by Anne Bray
Projections of slides / Digitized slide film

While working in Boston, Anne Bray was photographing words outdoors, advertising, graffiti, municipal texts, everything; hundreds of words. Our collaboration began when she suggested that I organize her images into an urban poem that could be shown as projected photographic slides. In the last few months we have revisited this project, digitizing the original slides and formatting them for this website.

Anne Bray has been working at the intersection of public space and media art as a hybrid artist and director of the nonprofit media arts organization, Freewaves.  Engagement with edgy, demanding, clarifying art by a broad public is Bray’s mission.  Her specialty is finding platforms for pressing and compelling subjects to be broached from various angles. She exhibits that work in formats that publics, often unaware of contemporary art, can comprehend without the work losing its integrity.  In her art, like in her career, she contrasts different points of view side by side.  Viewers are asked to examine themselves.  Questions are often the format.