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Ruth Dick: I Say Tomato...
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The COVERT Collective is pleased to be participating in Femme Folks Fest 2022. Today we are re-posting an interview by Ruth Dick, who is one of the 8 female artists featured in Projections, an open air display of fine art being projected in Uptown Waterloo, ON.
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They took it down and it said, you violated our community standards on nudity and sex… I objected and I clicked the “This is not what it seems” option or “not what you think it is” or whatever it was. They reinstated (the post) and they sent me a notice of reinstatement with a little thumbnail of the damn tomato… which I took a screenshot of and posted to say I’ve been reinstated… and they banned me again.
Ruth Dick: I Say Tomato…
Ruth Dick is a prolific photographer from Ottawa. She was one of our very first featured artists here at curated. where I wrote:
“Ruth Dick is a master at capturing the solitary. Almost every image she takes focuses intently on a single object, somehow stimulating a desire to engage in self-reflection… Like O’Keefe, Ruth is able to conjure up form and substance in abstract ways that deftly imbue her images with fresh import. A pepper is not a pepper.”
Things are still not quite what they seem. Her racy photographs have recently caused quite a bit of controversy, and have even been meta-banned. I spoke to Ruth about the implications of this in a recent conversation. You can listen to the podcast above.
More images by Ruth can be enjoyed on her Instagram account @photos_uncurated. ~ Mark Walton
curated. theme music: Shipwrecked by Isaiah Steinberg, used with permission.