Artist John Shen talks about his practice and work in group exhibition See and Be Seen II on Instagram Live:
Providence-based artist John Shen will exhibit a triptych of portrait photographs from his ongoing series Straw Inscriptions, a body of work that features one-off direct positive photographic objects, capturing moments of love, intimacy, and affection of his closest friends and family. The camera used for Straw Inscriptions was tediously assembled by hand-gluing approximately 28,000 individual drinking straws. By intentionally forgoing any optical elements, Shen embraces an exclusively analog approach to photography.
