JOANN VERBURG: Untitled Sally & Ricardo is a photograph that I made in a swimming pool in Minneapolis in the dead of winter. There had just been an election - I guess it was 1980 and I really had a lot of doubts about my country. So, I think the swimming pictures partly come out of my need to express a feeling of things being out of balance, of things being out of whack. And the spaces where those people are, and that they're floating, but where is up and where is down in that picture doesn't seem that clear.
I love the waterline in the swimmers' pictures. You see it around peoples' faces, or little places across their skin.
In Sally & Ricardo there's a sense that she's being held up by the water, but also that she's partly beneath the water, and that's a separation of two worlds there. And I'm in a world that's separated from Sally's world, and yet, she's looking at the camera, she’s looking at me, she's looking at you. So there is a sense of connection between all these worlds.
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