#tangentiallyparenthetical

Tangentially Parenthetical | Ed Templeton | Um Yeah Arts #photobook #tangentiallyparenthetical #edtempleton #umyeaharts https://www.instagram.com/p/B6vVTqLovfE/?igshid=7apm0i9m2dl

TODAY, 12/2, 4-6PM! Ed Templeton signing at Arcana: Books on the Arts Sunday, December 2 from 4-6 PM, Ed Templeton will be signing copies of “Tangentially Parenthetical,” published by Um Yeah Arts, at Arcana: Books on the Arts in Culver City. @ed.templeton @arcanabooks @umyeaharts #edtempleton #tangentiallyparenthetical https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq5SfaDnhfu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=q54ko8lwu1mh

“We get such a small sample size from which to glean an understanding, and at every twist and turn there’s a carnival barker distracting us, a quack extolling the virtues of their miracle cure, or a religious zealot offering a shortcut to the pearly gates—all for a small fee, of course. The people we trust the most are often Judas goats we follow into the slaughterhouse of confusion, dogmas, and misconceptions. Handed down through the generations, they become so deeply accepted that challenging them makes one a target of derision. The truth is at our fingertips, yet we lack the dexterity to crack open the thick husk of misinformation surrounding it. These tangentially parenthetical speculations are a beam of light shooting right through my being, which acts like a prism dividing this light into striated colors—each stratum generating a subtext of its own—brilliant for a fleeting moment then spiraling into useless allegories and dead ends. My camera takes these singular moments, strips them of context, and rearranges them into parable. The reader fractures them further into multiple interpretations and deviations exceeding the fleeting reality originally documented. These are just tiny leaves trimmed from a colossal shape- shifting hedge of suburban topiary that stretches out over the horizon—arranged in sequence for the enjoyment of visually literate connoisseurs who will study and appraise the shape of their content and divine narratives potentially divergent, but no less valid than the creator’s.” —Ed Templeton, “Tangentially Parenthetical” from Um Yeah Arts @ed.templeton #tangentiallyparenthetical #edtempleton @umyeaharts https://www.instagram.com/p/BqKpm5HH9gH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1h8fsm76ewtw2