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From YouTube: Artist Interview: Kevin Hoth
Description
Kevin Hoth is breaking the rules and asking people to scream. Hoth, a photographer and teacher, is taking recordings of people’s screams and creating cyanotypes to help people express themselves in these times of hardship. Creative Neighborhoods: COVID-19 Work Projects was launched by the Office of Arts + Culture and Create Boulder: https://boulderarts.org/public-art/creative-neighborhoods/covid-19-work-projects/
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Hi,
my
name
is
kevin
hoath.
I
am
an
artist
photographer,
an
educator
and
a
father
as
well.
I've
been
working
in
photography
since
about
1994..
My
obsessions,
I
would
say,
are
you
know,
evidence
of
time
compression
of
time
into
singular
works,
and
I
guess
kind
of
combining
space
photographically
from
one
vantage
point.
If
that
makes
sense,.
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As
far
as
covet
affected
my
life,
my
livelihood,
my
artistic
practice,
the
main
thing
that
happened
was
in
march.
I
was
teaching
three
classes
at
cu
boulder
and
so
all
of
those
classes
had
to
move
fully
online.
So
that
was
quite
a
a
large
change
in
the
way
that
I
was
delivering
my
teaching
the
way
I
was
interacting
with
my
students.
A
Of
course,
I
tend
to
make
a
lot
of
work
about
my
personal
situation,
my
life,
and
I
a
lot
of
my
work-
is
actually
comes
out
of
dealing
with
difficult
situations
in
my
life,
so
I
almost
use
it
my
artwork
artwork
as
therapy
in
a
way.
So
for
me,
like
dealing
with
this
new
situation
that
was
traumatic,
there's
a
lot
of
loss
involved
in
grief.
I
actually
was
quite
I've
been
pretty
productive.
I
feel,
like
especially
march
april,
may,
just
making
a
lot
of
work.
A
A
We
don't
really
let
our
wildness
out
a
whole
lot,
it's
very
everything's,
very
regimented,
and
that
sort
of
thing-
and
I
just
had
this
idea
of
basically
letting
people
scream,
recording
the
screams
and
then
somehow
translating
that
into
like
a
cyanotype
photographic
print.
So
I've
seen
people
do
things
with
sound
waves
before
and
I
thought
I
could
maybe
make
that
work.
A
A
My
plan
was
to
do
this
project
after
kovid
and
obviously
this
was
at
the
time
we
thought
oh
yeah
it'll
be
over
in
six
months,
and
I
you
know
I'll
do
this
afterwards
and
people
can
come
and
come
to
my
studio
or
come
somewhere
and
scream
into
a
microphone.
I
would
have
the
sound
go
to
a
speaker
which
would
be
underneath
a
dish
of
water.
The
cyanotype
paper
would
be
underneath
that
I
would
shine
a
light
through
the
water
through
the
ripples
and
then
it
would
kind
of
imprint
onto
the
paper.
A
Obviously
we
got
a
social
distance,
so
I
thought
oh
people
could
actually
call
me
and
do
this
or
they
could
record
themselves
screaming.
I
could
take
and
if
this
doesn't
work
with
actually
translating
directly
to
the
sound
waves.
What
I'll
be
able
to
do
is
do
something
like
this,
where
I
take
the
sound
waves
and
I
make
sort
of
a
graphic
image
that
I
use
to
make
a
print
from,
but
I
still
like
the
idea
of
this
catharsis
because
I
feel
like
we
don't
in
our
society.
A
A
Everyone
just
needs
to
be
safe
out.
There
wear,
masks
and
take
care
of
yourselves.
Everyone
just
needs
to
treat
yourself
as
much
as
possible
and
be
safe
and
if
you're
not
being
productive
right
now,
don't
beat
yourself
up
over
that.
I
definitely
think
we
all
just
need
to
do
what
we
can
in
this
moment
it's
challenging
for
everyone,
so.