Trail of a Swarm
Trail of a Swarm utilizes the photograph as a portal through which a new visual world can be discovered and explored by the viewer. The majority of the images take the form of desolate, abstracted landscapes articulated by paths of light and dark, and ranging from the highly saturated, to the subdued and monochromatic. Separately portrayed, in similarly abstracted form, are the inhabitants of this world – the remainders of masses: humans, animals, and insects – subjects we commonly perceive as ordinary, appear alien. And artifacts within these images are treated in an alike perspective raising questions regarding their origins.
In an article titled Hubris, Utopia and the Future Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa wrote, “The matter which surrounds us retains more than the mere impression of our actions, but perhaps something of our innermost aspirations as well.” Time is similarly treated, removed from its linear flow, as these images simultaneously allude to both a potentially fabricated past and a foreboding future. The variety, or even oppositional qualities within these images is necessary in order to formulate images that reference this entanglement across multiple layers of time. The photographs convey an environment ridden with traces left to be discovered and discerned.
Bio
Cory Fitzgerald is a photographer living in Rochester, New York. He completed an MFA in photography in 2016 at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has been the recipient of several scholarships and awards including the William A. Reedy Memorial Scholarship, and RIT’s Outstanding Graduate Student Award. His work has been exhibited internationally since 2011. www.coryfitzgerald.net