Untitled c. 1970

This black and white photograph was captured by Mikki Ferrill. There's a feeling, isn’t there, of being there, in that moment, in that space. The light seems to hover. Is it natural? Artificial? Something in between? I wonder what it was like for Mikki to work in black and white; it is so exposing, so revealing! The eye is not distracted by the colorful world, instead, drawn to focus on the contrasts, shapes, forms. I can imagine Mikki moving in and around the crowd, searching, looking for the right moment to freeze it with the camera. What do you think they were thinking when they pressed the shutter? Were they hoping to reveal something about the human condition? Or just capture a fleeting scene? That decisive moment is now something we can see and interpret through the lens of our own lives. It’s about the conversation we have with the artist, across time, across space. Art is about keeping the dialogue flowing.