There is a social tag to much of the work. I view it only as a momentary categorical narrowing of perspective necessary to focus on the more significant issue of reconstruction of social memory for critical examination.
My work addresses issues of socialization. I am concerned with the way in which we come to terms with the real world both as individuals and as societies. Without memory triggers we are not truly sentient beings. Therefore, I seek to address these origins not simply as nostalgic retrieval of content issues, but as disclosure of universal form issues that clarify our very sense of the meaning of the world around us.
There is a social tag to much of the work. I view it only as a momentary categorical narrowing of perspective necessary to focus on the more significant issue of reconstruction of social memory for critical examination.
The images build upon digital scans of found images, personal photographs, slides of earlier work, video frame captures and computer generated text and form. These are printed on a variety of media.
The object of this process is to build an overabundance of images and image series that speak first as an excessive installation of related but divergent exhibitions and individual works. The issue is an attempt to find and manipulate that point where a surfeit of images begins to diminish rather than augment an artist’s statement. The power of any individual image is, in the age of image overload, suspect at best. Cannon wonders what power is truly left for us to exploit in the creation of the images.