Art Gallery VANDA Presents Solo Show of Scott Boyce - "Half Told Stories"

Scott Boyce has spent most of the past twenty years living and working in Georgia, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey. He is an exploration geologist by profession. His work, love of traveling and especially his love of wilderness have taken him to many different parts of the world.

Each one of the photographs in this exhibition tells part of a story, where neither the beginning or ending are provided. It is up to the viewers to do their own resolving of the scene, to their own satisfaction.

The promotion photo is one that Scott took while flying above the Greenland ice-sheet. “In the background you see straight, parallel lines in the ice,” he remarks. “But in the middle-ground, those straight lines are absent. I imagine the ice-sheet to be a sheet of paper, with the top half filled with words, and the bottom half a blank space, waiting for someone else – the viewer – to fill…”

It’s easy to guess that this photo was taken far outside of any city, deep within nature. And in it is seen one of the most impressive technological achievements of the 20th century, a helicopter, juxtaposed against one of the most basic and wild and remote – and vulnerable – of environments, a barren ice-sheet. Thus, the photo also explores a theme common to many of the exhibition photographs: the relationship of humanity to the natural world.

"The photos are arranged in such a way that as you go from one to the next – you should see a link, some shared element. To view them it is best to start with the first photo… then move to the one beside it… then to the one beside that one… until you eventually get to the end. Much as if you are reading a story, passing from line to line until all the lines are gone.", the event description reads.

The exhibition opens at Vanda Art Gallery on February 18th, from 4:00PM to 8:00PM.