Anna Cox
Assistant Professor of Art
B.A., Ohio State University
M.F.A., Southern Illinois University
Bedford 208
(434) 395-2642
coxan@longwood.edu
Online Portfolio
Although these large scale color photographs visually reference science and surveillance, their origin is deceptively ordinary. These images are the dried remains from my morning cup of coffee.
Between what the images suggest and what they actually are is a journey from micro landscape of the body (cells, germs, viruses) to macro vistas of satellite imagery. By recontextualizing the evidence of this common daily ritual the images shift our perspective from the banal to something unexpected and radically different. By questioning what is really there they also challenge the verisimilitude of the photographic image.
These contextual shifts mimic how we locate and begin to understand our place in the world: simultaneously large and powerful and remarkably insignificant.
The titles indicate the day the coffee was consumed.