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Home > Exhibits > Jonathan

Jonathan, Cumberland Kayaks, Nashville, 2023, digital photo

  • When the cicada union negotiated airspace rights, they demanded equal billing with construction cranes.
  • A honky-tonk quantum superposition—pigs fly, guitars 
glow, mushrooms light up, and the whole street flickers between a country song and cosmic simulation, collapsing only when you decide what tune it plays.
  • Stairs fold, people loop, gravity negotiates with architecture—meanwhile, the city quietly spins itself into another dimension.
  • Petals curl on pumpkin skin, Autumn laughs and lets them in.
  • Time-outs collapse, referees multiply, and the basketball 
becomes a quantum object—every play happening all at once, forever bouncing inside a cosmic gymnasium.
  • "I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot."-André Robert Breton (Surrealist photographer, writer, and poet)
  • Bowling pins are optional, physics negotiable, vibes mandatory.
  • Up the hill, down the hill, neon sleds zigzag like candy 
spilled across the snow. Nobody knows where the ride ends, but everyone's laughing anyway.
  • The red clay of Uganda creates the heart of this 
bird buffalo combo.
  • The Rosebud reservation is where my great-great uncle, 
Swedish photographer John Andersson, planted roots. So here I am in South Dakota, photographing his backyard—sky looping, land stretching, channeling a little surrealism into the photographic family tree.
  • This is where my grandma was born! I didn't know her well but this photo is nothing but love and happiness. Like grandparents.
  • Somewhere between pollination and parallel universes, the flowers threw a party and reality forgot to RSVP.
  • Bricks multiply, wires tangle, and rooftops stack infinitely—an urban fractal, collapsing and expanding depending on who’s watching.
  • I made this on 2-22-22 the day I turned 42 and became a surrealist.
Jonathan

April 4, 2025-May 30, 2025

Jonathan’s (formerly known as Jonathan Rodgers) journey into photography began with a chance discovery over three decades ago. At the age of 13, he stumbled upon a Nikkormat FT2 camera hidden away in a closet. This seemingly small moment sparked an enduring passion. Encouraged by his parents, they enrolled him in photography and darkroom classes. Jonathan began to build the foundation for what would become a lifelong pursuit. In a poetic twist, the very closet where his interest first ignited would later be transformed into his personal darkroom. More.

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