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Every day we read linear arrangements—like writing with shape and texture.
My work is a construction of various alignments, grids of objects, irregular arrangements
and story telling details with a goal of refining unexpected elements into graphic phrases.
They are finite with a beginning and an end, like a sentence.
As words relate to other words by grammar and syntax, images relate to other images by
the visual—ºshape, shadow and texture, and the emotional—politics, religion or morality.
As one who one backs away from the horizon to see a curve, I look at a linear line and see
an opportunity to create a story.
—Joe Notaro
photographs by joe notaro
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