Ken Taylor

Wrap Duets; photographic compositions.

17th May – 11th July 2015

This wallet of 12 postcards has been made to correspond with Ken Taylor’s show of photographic compositions in the m2 Gallery, Peckham, London. The exhibition develops the themes of his previous show “Veils and Repetitions” of 2014 where the images were presented in a dyptych format. In the new series a single image is duplicated and mirrored, retaining a sense of duality, but composed into a single composition, albeit one that suggests further duplication into an endless wrap.  Equally “wraps” are a different form of “veil” suggesting more of a containing quality; the found incidents of the world wrapped and offered as presents.  

The photographs were not taken with “wraps” in mind, rather they are a record of where the eye has led the camera. With this journeying, roving, sensibility, all the photographs have been taken “practically” rather than “technically”, with an ordinary digital pocket camera, on the automatic setting, in natural light. This seems to fit their “as found, at that moment” quality; seeing the ordinary as extraordinary.

The “as found” nature of the photographs are extended to their “duet” composition where the meeting of the two images create a unique “as found” place of conversation. That they are “duets” hopefully suggests an intimate lyrical atmosphere inspired by the jazz composer and fugelhorn player Kenny Wheeler, who loved the place between structure and improvisation. Postards echo this duality, as there is a delight in the writer completing the creation and dispatching them to unknown places. Hopefully they are destined to find a good place to call home. 

Ken Taylor is 5 minutes younger than his twin sister and is an Architect who takes a lot of photographs.