Constructed Narratives 2019-2022: The Plague Years | Joe Marotta | Exhibition Opening

“I give the readers the opportunity to supplement what they read with their own imagination.” – James Joyce

This series of images explores the process of memory and the way we reconstruct experience. Each piece is made up of two to three photographs, requiring the viewer to complete the implied linkage between them. Marotta also includes text, which is sometimes embedded in the image or hand written later. The images are also connected by a solid or transparent colored rectangle. Since color can have such a strong emotional response, this adds an additional element for the viewer to construct their interpretation. It is up to the viewer to complete the narrative through their interpretation, making up their own story.’ two to three photos with text. One of photography’s characteristics is its ability to reference real experience. Photography’s association with personal experience, memory and suspended time are unique, allowing the viewer to give significance to the image on a personal level. Making up the narrative. Taking the time. Making it theirs. It’s always a surprise. In this way, the photograph that we experience is not always the photograph that we see.