Doug Dertinger – HOLD
AXIS Gallery presents HOLD, new photographic works by Sacramento-based artist Doug Dertinger. HOLD brings together works from two photographic projects, Voyage and Traveler, inviting the viewer to consider the liminal nature of the everyday. This liminality, operative as silence and invitation to our attention or ignorance, is often overlooked as the generative source of our actions and attitudes toward the land. As one is held by glance or gaze, so is one operative: “I am always interested in the intimate encounter with the unattended,” writes Dertinger, “of the everyday and the easy-to-overlook, not simply to be witness, but attendant, gardener.” Dertinger’s images invite us to be collaborators in our understanding of the environment, forefronting the relationships that arise as we perceive, affirm, and deny the delicacy of our mutable and often tragic world.
