back to main back to Conceptual Radiator Epipany © 2008 Tom Ferguson I had an assignment in art school to do a self-portrait. I had been working at a gas
station, bending over to open the hood and noticing these splattered
bugs all over the radiator. I had been wanting to photograph them and
here was an opportunity. Not having a camera I had to get some help and
between coordinating schedules & finding a car it ended up with
only the one lonely bug rather than the more dramatic & dense ones that
had moved the idea. Like a good journalist one turns in the product that
is ready at deadline. I justified it as self-portrait by insisting that
anything I did was of me, thus a self portrait. If you consider it
abit, the lone bug,
encountering the radiator unexpectedly is a poignant reminder of our precarious mortality and the whimsical "nets of chance".
