My favorite photograph in A Meditation on the Ordinary shows a small, bare tree.
Naked as an X-ray, it poses against a paper-white wall, thrusting out wispy branches like capillaries.
It’s anchored, but stretching.
Reaching for the edges.
From the Foreward by David Freeman, Art Instructor, South Texas College, McAllen, TX
You go you spanking Buddha, cool mad art alley rat, keep talking with your mouth full and keep slapping me around visually with that old-school Leica. Never witnessed an artist who could find with a camera what he created with painting -- a captured pulse of the backdoor man.
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From the Foreward by Diana Roberts, independent curator, writer, San Antonio, TX
Curiosity is by no means a uniquely human trait, but Mattson’s images are a superb expression of the curious humor found in the unintentional tableau of the human environment. The interactions between architecture, plants, and the unwitting intervention of homo sapiens portrayed in these images are intuitively funny and quirkily arresting that make one laugh first and ask questions later.
From the Introduction by Rick Smith, columnist, San Angelo Standard Times, San Angelo, TX
John Mattson