Pairs

From the beginning of my professional career my main interest, my motivating force and passion, has been to explore and experiment, search-ing for imagery that would surprise and delight me in my quest to ex-press what's deep inside. One of many areas of my on-going interest has been the exploration of the relationship between two subjects: the visual, graphic, emotional, social, physical and even spiritual dynamic resonating and resulting from such combinations.I am in search of the electric, sometimes eccentric and always compel-ling connections possible with a combination of two whether dancers, athletes, mothers and newborns, gymnasts and even inanimate objects. Sometimes they were brought together intentionally: I've found other images that speak to each other in ways I had not previously noticed. The connections are sometimes subtle, sometimes not. I've scoured for pairings of every sort. Not necessarily the Shakespearean form of heroic couplets, but couplets nevertheless. I have tried to look for both the unexpected and the unusual in my art. A photographic odyssey into the world of twos is a natural outgrowth of my ongoing search for surprise and delight. I continue to make new images in pursuit of this quest. Howard Schatz, New York 2023