Stan Denniston
Kent State U./Pilgrimage & Mnemonic
Photography
West Gallery

Toronto Artist

PRESS RELEASE

Stan Denniston's concerns with the associative properties of memory, first evidenced in his 'REMINDERS' series, are further developed in this exhibition to engender a much complexified view of private consciousness.

The catalyst of this photographic installation was a visit to the site of an extraordinary public event with which Denniston had a degree of familiarity through mass media representation -- the fantasy of presense. His response is a multi-layered montage/ monument; a photographic equivalent of the primary site synthesized from locations of remembrances of direct experience. Memory as fact, as conscience, and as tribute -- these photographs set a certainty of experience against that fantasy.