Michael Schmelling’s The Plan “deals with something inherent to the human condition: the desire to tell stories as a way of expressing the fact of our existence. What is interesting about this project, namely the photographic study of Obsessive Compulsive Hoarding Disorder, is that the subject matter and subjects being studied have warped over into story overload: their stories branch out in a hundred thousand different never-ending directions, all at once. There is a white noise effect in visual terms in The Plan: it’s as if there is a ten thousand page novel that consists only of first sentences….
Book Launch: Michael Schmelling’s The Plan | The Plan & Michael Schmelling at Family | Matty Byloos
image via michaelschmelling.com
