“After years of organising [the photographs] in a logbook I realised I was making very conscious decisions about where I was placing each frame,” she says. “After that, I started cutting into pictures from a series of photos about wrestling. This impulse came because I wanted to escape the boundaries of the ‘where’ and the ‘what’ the photos were. The specifics of photography can be overwhelming [so] to cut out and rework the figures gave me a better way of talking about what I was truly interested in which was movement, performance and historical, religious paintings.
“I am most thrilled when things start by the accident of proximity and seeing two pieces together creates a dialogue that can be asserted by decisions that involve cutting out or pasting upon. In terms of surrealism, it is the desire to have punctuation, subtext. To create a work that is in itself a conversation or argument.”
Leigh Ledare Air Freshener 2010
