Peter Leighton
Artist Statement
HINDSIGHT (is 2020)
Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other hunter whips out his cell phone and calls emergency services. He gasps, "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says, “Calm down, calm down. I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." The phone then
goes silent, after which the operator hears a gun shot.
Some seconds later, the caller is back on the phone.
“Okay”, he says, “now what?"
Artist Bio
I came of age in the 1960’s in small town Texas, leaving to study history at Trinity University in San Antonio, and, later, to train and work with photographer Tom Wright, a National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient. As a person advancing in years now, I have lived the life I wanted, though not the life I thought I would. Along the way, photography has been a means of turning this distinction into a language that makes sense to me. On occasion, the images I’ve constructed and the stories they’ve told have made sense to others as well.
Pricing
The HINDSIGHT (is 2020) series is digitally printed with archival inks on 8x10in photo rag paper - $200 per image
