"I want to think this is all going to work out but like the guy says: 'nobody gets through this life alive.'"
My whole life we've been at war. We've been at war against Drugs; against Terror; against Crime.
We've been at war for Oil; for Stability; for Capital. It's always someplace else, but it's also
always present: a shadow slightly out of step. If it ever really goes off, we're all toast.
Perry Doane's Low in the Field is haunted by the specter of war: history, heraldry, futility,
and death rendered mundane by sheer scale. The chemical-stained surfaces of small, ghostly
photographs hover just at the edge of recognition. A diamond screen, corroded and clouded.
Heavily processed, the work in Low in the Field carries touch, time, and memory in its surfaces.
It's time spent with the ghosts—melancholy, perhaps, but also beautiful.
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Perry Doane lives in Sonoma County.
He enjoys exploring complex systems through his process-heavy multimedia practice.
Transitions between hand and mechanical, and photographic and physical processes, direct
a form of guided meditation. Perry has exhibited at escolar, Santa Rosa, CA; Ditch
Projects, Eugene, OR; and Fourteen30 Contemporary, Carl & Sloan, and Rocks Box,
Portland, OR. He holds an MFA in Studio Practice from Portland State University.