Alexis Culver Unsold High Heels and Fish Flies

Alexis Culver

Unsold High Heels and Fish Flies

Large format 4x5 camera on transparency film

Artist statement:

All of the work in this series is in color in order to show the darkness of the space and the way the light hits (and illuminates) specific items in the store. The work is made in an old small-town family-owned grocery located in northern Indiana that was up and running from 1932 to 1972. It still has items on the shelves, as well as display cases and an old meat scale. Over the years it has been turned into a sort-of

Visual Selections

storage space, so piles of hymnals and Bibles, and old family relics are among the unopened packages of tobacco and outstanding receipts. It's a very unique place and the photographs are not only a documentation of the space, but also commentary on the people who owned it, the location, and the time period in which it thrived.