Towards a warm math

This booklet merges the technical finesse of commercial photography with a penchant for experimentation. Despite seldom instances of the human figure, the hand of the artist is ever-present in Blalock’s spirited, though often disruptive works. Deliberately staged and often staggeringly manipulated ,it stresses the limits of the photographic image.
With no discernible interest in narrative, Blalock trains his camera on the banal: an extension cord, individually wrapped bars of soap, a cheese grater. Such objects don’t command the spotlight so much as reluctantly accept it. As veritable stand-ins, Blalock’s physical subjects perform dutifully yet never upstage the main attraction.