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Show Me the Glint of Light on Broken Glass
By Katy Grannan
"Imagine Him ruling over this earth. That wisdom, that love, that perfection. Everything will be so right and so loving and so perfect."
Seek.
"Y que yo he de decir? Que yo estoy cansado? Que el camino es largo y no se ve el fin?
"I spoke to God today and she said that she's ashamed. What have I become, what have I done?"
"Better days lie ahead."
The radio is as good a portrait as anything else—as indicative of who we are and how we live. "Heat wave! (And it's starting to smell pretty ripe.) Be careful and stay indoors!" Christian rock, death metal, bellowing Latino deejays and creepy preachers (who, for some reason, I cannot shut off.) This is the soundscape of nowhere, a desert of boredom, the place where history happens somewhere else. I've spent the last seven years here, looking closely, listening carefully and growing to love this unforgiving place. I cannot reconcile the fact that the sublime lives alongside the unimaginable or that the myth of reinvention, the promise of something better, ended right here. These photographs and film stills describe a place that is not entirely knowable and a paradox that will never be resolved.
It's the other side of the American Dream and it feels like home.
Katy Grannan is a photographer and filmmaker living and working in the Bay Area. Grannan received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MFA from Yale School of Art. There are five monographs of her work: Model American, The Westerns, Boulevard, The Nine and The Ninety Nine. She is currently working on a feature-length film entitled The Nine. Grannan has been a visiting artist and lecturer at Yale, CCA, USC, and Cranbrook Academy of Art, among others. Grannan's photographs are included in the collections of Guggenheim Museum, MOMA, SFMOMA, and LACMA. Since moving to California in 2006, Grannan's work has explored the relationship between aspiration and delusion within American culture.
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