David Agee has always explored the secret inner structures of things, opening up computers or other machinery when he was younger to expose their insides or re-designing them to his unique vision. His provocative, cutting-edge photographs take that curiosity into the realm of art-making. His works are extreme close-ups of the objects of his obsessions, and his use of a macro lens allows him to blur the visual distinctions behind the shapes of mass-produced products and the organic. He gets up close to his subjects and in doing so, reveals universal shapes and the universal way all things decay--they bubble, they drip, they glow and bend light on their journey of transformation and mutation.
Thematically, David's focus is the ecstasy of self-destruction and emotional extremes. In creating these stunning visual records, we are shown that destruction and creation resemble each other when frozen in process by the camera lens. David Agee's work forces us to question the surface matter of all we take for granted.
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