"The photographs choose an emotional over a literal translation of a scene," explains Schaub. "The non-digital information becomes the springboard for the digital, and between the two an interpretation of a scene emerges which may in fact be only distantly related to the original scene."

What emerges is a less rational universe than our own, a collection of non-places and non-things which feels all the more familiar for its anonymity and highly symbolic nature. The overall effect is not unlike what Wordsworth once described as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotion…(of) emotion recollected in tranquility."

Eve O. Schaub owner/director
Indian Hill Gallery
of Fine Photography