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Name
Bucky Miller
Title ︎︎︎ Onions
I am an assistant professor of photography at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I'm from Arizona and studied photography at Arizona Sate and the University of Texas at Austin. I believe deeply that pictures are a form of literature, as well as a critical medium in contemporary art.
These pictures come from a body of work called Onions. Onions are powerful and complex, yet humble and relatively commonplace. Also, they come out of the ground. An oblique title like this allows the connotations of the project to remain flexible. Also the word "Onions" also has a nice shape, and it's impossible to deny the significance of formal qualities.
The photographs in Onions merge the dueling forces of presence and imaginative escape. Pictures, for me, are raw materials that I use in a variety of containers, including exhibitions, artist books, photo essays, and performative lectures. A successful photograph is one that functions equally well within a collection and as a singular unit. The picture itself is my primary concern, so my approach to process is nonhierarchical. Onions pulls digital photography into conversation with sculpture and object theater. No matter the method, I aim for a state of “exquisite syntropy.” This term, coined by my eponym Buckminster Fuller, refers to life’s capacity to organize itself toward diversity, complexity, and transformation. Photography’s curious and imperfect parallels to lived experience makes it the perfect vehicle for this pursuit.
These pictures come from a body of work called Onions. Onions are powerful and complex, yet humble and relatively commonplace. Also, they come out of the ground. An oblique title like this allows the connotations of the project to remain flexible. Also the word "Onions" also has a nice shape, and it's impossible to deny the significance of formal qualities.
The photographs in Onions merge the dueling forces of presence and imaginative escape. Pictures, for me, are raw materials that I use in a variety of containers, including exhibitions, artist books, photo essays, and performative lectures. A successful photograph is one that functions equally well within a collection and as a singular unit. The picture itself is my primary concern, so my approach to process is nonhierarchical. Onions pulls digital photography into conversation with sculpture and object theater. No matter the method, I aim for a state of “exquisite syntropy.” This term, coined by my eponym Buckminster Fuller, refers to life’s capacity to organize itself toward diversity, complexity, and transformation. Photography’s curious and imperfect parallels to lived experience makes it the perfect vehicle for this pursuit.
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