Greg Stimac

Greg Stimac's Mowing the Lawn series is a portrait of an American tradition. It's hard to imagine an American house, in an American neighborhood with out grass surrounding it. It's an iconic part of our culture just as much as apple pie and baseball. The images are simple in terms of formal qualities and tone, but unsuspectingly deep in their repetition of concept. Each image is very static yet shows a certain struggle in each individual. Completely frozen in their actions it is possible to examine each persons physical involvement in their work. You start to notice the similarities that carry between each person. Aside from their obvious similar act of mowing it becomes apparent that each person is struggling in someway. No one is enjoying this mundane act that only exists as a 'this has to be done' basis. They appear to be robotically and blindly carrying out this act simply because it is engraved in them as something that they have to do. This is in general how most traditions function, a staple of everyday life yet not something that is often given though as to why it is happening, its just simply tradition.