The In Times is a small reminder of the vast body of indoor human activities that feel nicer in the winter. This part of the year presents an ongoing back-and-forth between the feeling of being outside – where we are alert, where we are aware of the threat to our bodies that hangs over us by way of the cold and where, far more often than not, we move with a pounding sense of urgency to reach our next indoor destination. This grip on our consciousness created by the vast and constantly threatening expanse of the outdoor universe can easily guide us away from the corners of our brains that drive such dynamic and human acts as consumption, creativity and optimization of our environment.
Then, when we return indoors, as our brains take note of the fact that the looming threat of cold is gone, it sends blood out of the regions responsible for the functions of survival and back into those regions that handle the functions that allow us to thrive. We gain the freedom to ponder, to create, to consume and to optimize. On a physical level, we get to carry out physical acts which hands buried in thick winter gloves cannot even generate sufficient motor dexterity to do effectively. Perhaps most importantly, we have the capacity to appreciate the privilege that existing on this side of this very fine line represents, knowing that in a number of hours, and hundreds of times in the space of several months, all of that privilege will again leave us.
That awareness brings those uniquely indoor acts a level of sensation and value that they do not have in other parts of the year – and The In Times aims to remind us of that truth.
About the Artist
Since the acquisition of his first digital camera in 2005, fine art photographer Jason DeBose has been shooting as many as 80,000 photographs a year of the locales in which he lives, travels and exhibits his artwork. Following his first exhibition in Los Angeles in 2007, he proceeded to win invitations for his work from more than 40 hotels, restaurants, churches, galleries and museums in seven countries and six U.S. states.
Since 2013, DeBose has been a member of the Finnish Union of Artist Photographers.
In 2022, DeBose was one of six artists chosen to give presentations of their work to the audiences of Relational Art Week, a series of multidisciplinary displays that examine the relationship between art and public life at Helsinki’s Myymälä2 Gallery, an event sponsored by Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
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