Curtains: Windows on the Unreality We Live In

Curtains is a dizzying photographic foray into the hidden realities lurking in the folds of puddled curtains that the photographer, John Briggs, found in windows of a central London office building. The photographer puts the curtain folds though simple transformations that result in strange creatures and eerie landscapes.

World-renowned black and white photographer Paul Caponigro has called the 32 pages of the curtain series "innuendos for the eye." Eric Lewis, composer and violinist of Manhattan String Quartet and Prometheus fame calls them "alluring mysteries of abstract, like sensuous musical shapes formed in the mind and filled with undefinable feelings."

The photographer himself wonders playfully (but perhaps seriously) if the folds of these curtains "are examples of what's hidden in plain sight all around us, alternative versions of the marvelous unreality we live in."

The book includes an introduction in which Briggs, who has a Ph.D. in aesthetics, also discusses the nature of abstract art.

Author: John Briggs
Publisher: Between Lines Books & Arts, LLC
Published: 11/02/2015
Pages: 34
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.00h x 8.00w x 0.09d
ISBN: 9780996665902

About the Author
Briggs, John: - John Briggs, PhD has authored and co-authored several books on chaos, fractals and creativity. He is former senior editor of Connecticut Review. His stories and poems have appeared in numerous publications. He taught at The New School for Social Research in the 1970s. He is an emeritus Distinguished CSU Professor of aesthetics from Western Connecticut State University where he taught writing and literature for 25 years. He is a Fellow at the Black Earth Institute.