My photographic images are connected to a long lineage of land & cityscape based work informed by my background in painting and filmmaking. With classical Chinese painting’s aesthetics that balance the polarities of near and far and empty and full as essential to a vision of the world, and with the language of film where multiple images are montaged together to form a narrative.

The gathering of photographic images in order to understand a place is about repeatedly going out and re-seeing it. This process aligns it with the history of walking—accessing & revealing both the spirit and matter of things over time. From the visual diary of these wanderings comes the studio practice of assembling and re-setting the parts much like how a Japanese garden is constructed, balancing its elements poised between the natural and the composed.

What emerges as seen shared between the natural and the cultural is a sense of fragility, transience, chance and mystery—gesturally echoing each other and speaking to how things are transformed and pass away.

Anderson's background in painting (Kansas City Art Institute, BFA) and in filmmaking (Syracuse University, M.F.A.) inform his images. He has exhibited his films, videos and photography internationally with one person shows in New York City, Kansas City and Tokyo. His photos are in many public and private collections including the Sprint Corporation, Hallmark, the University of Arkansas, Capital One Services, Inc., Lathrop & Gage, Emprise Bank, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Spenser Fane Britt & Browne, etc..

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