George King

King began an investigation into a community-centered greenspace in Atlanta. Tapestry Greenspace was founded in the 1980’s by a developer and a philanthropist. They purchased a tract of land to make it available for local residents and stave off developers whose interests were motivated by profit. The residents in turn sought to create a mixed community integrated by race, social class, education, and age. Forty years later this hidden jewel is still going strong. The project began as a straightforward documentation of the space and what King found in it. But subsequently he has begun to explore ways of placing time as an element into photographs. Perceptually, humans don’t see the world as a series of frozen photographs—we see a multi-faceted stream of images that are constantly in motion propelled by our interest and attention. King is photographing time as it is revealed by the inevitable shifts of light that are moving over the landscape. These physical and virtual images are then composited and collaged to present the viewer with multiple slices of time within the same photograph. Sometimes this is calibrated in seconds, sometimes in seasons.