Everything Will Be Alright

Everything Will Be Alright
Troy Ramos
2024
Photograph
18 x 24

Limited Edition: First 25 prints are $375 each. Cost will increase accordingly, approximately every 25 prints until all 100 are sold.

You get so used to photos you think you know the people in them but that's not true. You know the world of the photos but not the world they photographed. The photos create a world, but we don't know what's happening outside the frame. - Gerhard Richter

Detroit's landscape bears witness to unfathomable destruction, yet amidst the ruins lies a hauntingly poignant relic: an abandoned apartment complex, consumed by fire and decay, its remnants left to weather time's relentless march. Demolished in 2021, it now stands as a silent testament to both despair and resilience. Among the rubble, one particular scene captivated the artist's lens—an enigmatic rope tethered to a power line, its other end anchored to a metal pole, defying explanation. It wasn't until the artist gazed upward that the significance of this image dawned. In that fleeting moment, the artist felt an inexplicable kinship with the tethered rope—an emblematic struggle against descent into darkness. Suspended above the desolation, it symbolized a tenacious grasp on hope, a silent plea for resilience in the face of overwhelming odds.

These feelings parallel moments of human existence, where it's easy to feel adrift, insignificant.  Yet, in the midst of this chaos, the artist found solace in the defiant grip of that solitary rope—a stark reminder that amidst destruction, the human spirit endures.

For in that simple gesture of defiance—of refusing to let go—the artist discovered a profound and haunting beauty, a testament to the indomitable will to survive, even in the bleakest of landscapes.

Video by Artist: Background on Work