“…These points of multiplicity, visual pun, and paradox created signs of the variability of meaning, which seemed to be located in a space between the intentional and the contingent…”

“In the mid 70s, I began working on a series which used the phenomenon of camera perspective as a means of construction, transferring the multiplicity created through collaging in the earlier series [8mm and 2-1/4 hand-colored collages] to multiple readings generated by precise alignments in a single photograph, often along a line of sight. These occurrences within otherwise realistic, representational space created a kind of pun or paradox.

Many of these pictures were parodies of snapshots, suggesting that the meaning of the picture was an obvious one, which had to do with subject matter. The secondary meaning seemed accidental, or redundant. These points of multiplicity, visual pun, and paradox created signs of the variability of meaning, which seemed to be located in a space between the intentional and the contingent.”

– Carl Toth, hand-written notes, undated