When we were kids my friends and I used to play this game a lot:

Do you remember it? We would fold a piece of paper into however many segments, each person would be assigned a part of the body and the first person started to draw. She would finish and fold the paper so that the next person could only see a small part of the image and would continue to draw. The result of this game was more often than not a beautiful and obscure accident. The above image was created by Y. Tanguy, Joan Miro, Max Morise and Man Ray in 1927. I love the lowest segment with the racquets and balls.

The Exposure Project has taken this game to a whole new level with  Graphic Intersections:

Graphic Intersections is a collaborative project loosely based on the old Surrealist and Dadaist game The Exquisite Corpse. Designed to unite disparate artists in an interconnected photographic relay of images inspired by one another, this project strives to emphasize a system of response entirely rooted in unmediated visual reaction.

The first photographer made a photograph, which was subsequently forwarded to the second in line. The 2nd then, based solely on their own visual, emotional, intellectual or philosophical response, in turn made photographs in artistic reaction to the one they were given. The artists involved were not given any written material to accompany the photograph, nor did they know whose image they were responding to. This was designed to propagate chance, or as the Surrealist’s put it, exploit “the mystique of accident.”

Ultimately, Graphic Intersections to challenge the bounds of sequential, narrative imagery, while simultaneously fostering stronger lines of artistic affiliation.

I am very excited I was selected to be part of Graphic Intersections v 02 and look forward to collaborating with this amazing list of talented photographers: Lucas Blalock, Leah Tepper Byrne, Peter Happel Christian, Christopher Colville, Maureen Drennan, Lauren Edwards, Amy Elkins, Mike Fleming, Maury Gortemiller, Patrick Hogan, John Houck, Ina Jang, Phil Jung, Yijun Liao, Johan Rosenmunthe, Tina Schula, Kate Steciw, Tribble & Mancenido and Nathaniel Ward

If you haven’t yet checked out Graphic Intersections v 01 then please do so here.