Brian Freer

Artist's Statement

Photography is a meditative art allowing me to subtract everything that doesn’t matter at that moment. I shoot details to reflect on the shape and form and texture while my objective is to empty my mind of everything except for what’s right in front of me. I'd like the viewer to be able to see it as close to how I saw it and that means it should fill their field of view. I take pictures of whatever I’m drawn toward when I have a camera — it can be anything.

Reverse Perception is the experimental video component to Brian Freer's Natural Causes on exhibit at the Matney Gallery in Williamsburg VA. The video explores the effects of weather on the human psyche. Waves and wind play in reverse creating a mesmerizing uneasiness out of something that would more commonly calm an observer.