http://www.nancy-horowitz.at/?lp=en&site=ga20070402005353 en Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:43:52 GMT Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:43:52 GMT Andritsch cms-rss-generator Fotographie Copyright 2007, Nancy Horowitz - photographie , Andritsch WebSolutions Nancy Horowitz - photographie Andritsch WebSolutions, Vienna ocular wanderers http://www.nancy-horowitz.at/index.php?lp=en&site=ga20070402005353 An eye that observes through the camera and, in so doing, creates a game of hopping from place to place with the need to salvage something: traces, ruins, or perhaps a fleeting fragment of beauty. An observer who sees herself confronted with a double game, pacing through Heaven and Hell and thereby observing the obvious: unfettered feet, imprisoned feet, decorated or defined either by their nakedness or by their enclosures (feet in wool, leather or cotton). Surfaces instruct them, with textures of stone, cement or sand. Jumping from one picture to another and locating subtexts: countries, cultures, sounds, colours and contrasts that are suggested by crossings of poetic vision. Each tour is distinctly different. The path is a result of the pedestrian’s tossing a stone and is completed through his or her visually or conceptually associative imagination. (flat foot, lead foot, crow’s foot, rabbit’s foot, footprint). Fetish, apocryphal extremity, defined attribute, a symphony of curves with the profile of a seahorse. The visual metaphors of these syncopated photographs take on a dual function at the intersection between the individual and the world: Synecdoche a/o metonymy of the wanderer and his surroundings. Not only feet; but footnotes, captions. Nancy Horowitz’s photos transform us into ocular wanderers, observing pedestrians. Translation: Maura Bayer