Arkansas Times | August 2021 by Arkansas Times

A Q&A WITH ROBBIE BRINDLEY.

Maybe, like me, you first encountered Robbie Brindley’s photography by way of social media, where his work jumped off the screen with kinetic depictions of Hot Springs revelers, fresh off the dance floor at the town’s annual Valley of the Vapors festival or frolicking in front of a minimalistic backdrop on the way into a documentary film festival afterparty. What you’ll find in his new book, “Kudzu and the Usual Erosion,” though, is unabashedly still, heavy, humid — and probably best summed up by this passage in its introduction: “At some point, we all start to crumble; the things that once made us feel strong are soon made weak, and remind us of just how vulnerable we are. We’re the same as an old house on a humble road or a storm moving across the Delta. We’re here and we’re strong, then we aren’t. … . This is a study on those things — on understanding childhood or the people that influenced it. It’s a constant reminder of how frail we are and how nature always wins. It’s a way of coming to terms. It’s a desire to live peacefully with demise.”

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Published on Jul 30, 2021

Arkansas Times | August 2021

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