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鈥淚 enter the classroom as an evangelist for the idea that photography is the most complex, important form of communication in our culture, and that it takes energy, will, humor, pathos, research, and legwork to learn to use the medium effectively".

This statement by artist, educator, and writer Tim Davis affirms his belief in active image-making, something he has done consistently since the early 1990s. Davis鈥檚 photographs revel in surfaces and qualities of color and light, and he is a skillful chronicler of how everyday endeavors and conditions can be captured by the camera. Davis gives himself challenging projects, such as his decades-long visual poem, 鈥淚鈥檓 Looking Through You,鈥� with its mix of commercial signage, insects, machinery, sunsets, and diverse citizens at work and leisure.

Here at the Museum, he presents鈥疷pstate Event Horizon, an installation/event where viewers can touch, arrange, and rearrange a selection of his unframed color prints laid out on a table that wraps the gallery, making their own combinations and sequences. Should the skinny boy looking at a rainbow go next to the closeup of the waterfall or the woman taking a photo of cattle? This decision-making activity mimics Davis鈥檚 own experience in designing the pace and juxtaposition of images in his exemplary photo books.