SUSAN KISMARIC: Photographer JoAnn Verburg.
JOANN VERBURG: This man is Jim Moore and he’s my husband. He’s a wonderful poet and is the person who tends to be there when I am in the mood to shoot and has been very generous about letting me photograph him over the years.
Not too long after my husband and I got together, I started making photographs of people’s heads and enlarging them. I realize later, looking back, that it had to do with the fact that I was waking up in the morning and I had been single--and I would see 6 inches or maybe even less away from my own head a big head lying there asleep (Laughs) and it was actually a little bit of a shock.
This triptych is meant to be seen as one piece. Its about the shock of intimacy the shock to the system of letting someone affect you. If you look at the 3 photographs, the photo on the left looks like a picture of someone who’s really in his world. The second photograph looks to me like he’s moved into his own body. The picture on the right he’s confronting the viewer. And to me, again, this has to do with that boundary that blurry space between me and you, one person and another, how we move back and forth into each other’s lives.
