Ginger

To explain the deep significance of this image, I will rely on the words of an eminent critic

"In looking at Crispin's work, matter primes upon form. As this artist explores it, matter appears to be a memory that refreshes itself following its moods. It is surface where gesture becomes inscribed, residual trace of a past phenomenon, manifestation of a symptom. It contains this evident mystery of shape in the making, like the diffuse anxiety of something that has not been entirely spoken. The Germans speak of Stimmung to describe this sense similar to connotation, at the fringe of enunciation.


This expression belongs to a family of counter-forms: empty shapes, everted like a glove, or now tangible by the intermediary of a mould or an imprint. The counter-form calls for another, an outside. Hence we often ask ourselves about the condition that led to the emergence of this work, the reason that gave it life. This shape has an even more pronounced mysterious and paradoxal character as it is not phantomatic at all but seam, on the contrary, to have grown from its own and for itself without any intervening hand. This is why the grotesque invites itself that often into the matter-related pirouettes of the photographer, like an inverted expression of heroism. To try and “grasp” this form, one is never far from disconcert or laughter (which sometimes can be the same) whilst facing the failure of sense."