The William Morris Hunt Memorial Library
Horticultural Hall
2nd Floor
300 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
617-369-3385
The staff of the William Morris Hunt Memorial Library cordially invites you the 17th exhibition in our collaboration with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
September 2013
Oskar Lawrence Brent Malone
This body of work serves as a narrative reflection of my explorations and interactions to new environments and experiences. Photography being a practice less meditated, but more immediate, I am using the medium to adapt to unfamiliar surroundings and engagements. I work to capture aesthetic aspects of a moment, even those mediocre, overlooked milliseconds of beauty that one often encounters. Absorbing such things as a sponge, I am allowing documentation to shape my persona. I use the camera as a tool to explore the inner conflict of discovering one's initiative purpose for existence and the discomforting affect of cognitive dissonance- the grating feeling of difference between how we want to be and how we actually are. These works have been completely spontaneous of otherwise carefully orchestrated. I accumulate thoughts of personal value, concern, or what have you, and work within the moment. These images are dependent on an emotive response in order to be understood, which involves the non-thinking process of presence. Presence is what is needed to become aware of beauty. This is an instinctive response; to appreciate presence is plainly to be present. I use this practice as a means of self-expression- I make pictures for myself, to identify with hidden qualities of my character, and to better understand my reality. I photograph to express my comprehension of the world around me. A clearer perspective of my world allows me to explore remnants of life as an obscure form and to communicate with individuals that I usually would not be able to engage with. My hopes for these works are to create an intimate conversation that takes viewers to a place of admission and contemplation. Oskar Lawrence Brent Malone
Main Library Directions
The William Morris Hunt Memorial Library is located on the second floor of Horticultural Hall, which is located across Massachusetts Avenue from Symphony Hall.
Public Transportation
MBTA Subway Green Line E Symphony Station or Orange Line Massachusetts Avenue Station. The closest bus routes are #1 Mass. Ave line or #39 Huntington Ave.
Parking
No on-site parking garage is available for library users. Metered parking spaces are often available nearby on Massachusetts Avenue.