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A.C. KOCH: AN ARTIST'S STATEMENT
It always amazes me how powerful it can be to flip the perspective on something. Turning a photograph upside-down can open up a viewpoint that feels like a glimpse into another world. Sand and rocks scattered underfoot become stars suspended above. Rain puddles on city streets become looking glasses into hidden dimensions. For this photo, my girlfriend Denise and I visited Stinson Beach in Northern California where the tide on wet sand offered a perfect chance to capture a mirrored view of the sky. The black-and-white film heightens the contrast, turning the textures of the beach into the suggestion of weather. As a fiction writer, my interest in such photo manipulations is in the storytelling possibilities that emerge from altered images. Change your point of view, and the story comes to you.
A.C. Koch is a teacher, writer, musician, and photographer whose fiction has been published in Analog, December, Meridian, Split/Lip, Five South, and Fantasy & Science Fiction. His photography has appeared in Mud Season Review, Burning Word, and Invisible City. After years living and working overseas (France, South Korea, Mexico), Koch resides in Denver, Colorado, working with language learners while studying at the Mile High M.F.A. program at Regis University.
