This summer I will be moving across the country and settling into a home I'm hoping to be in for a good long while. One small detail of domestic life that I've eagerly been anticipating is setting up subscriptions to some of my favorite print publications; something I've been unable to do thus far with my migratory lifestyle of shifting addresses every couple years. One of the publications on my must-have list is to reinstate my lapsed subscription to Aperture magazine. Long a signpost for both established and new artists, Aperture's reach and history is a long and gratifying one for both reader and the practicing photographer.

The current Summer issue (now available on news stands) features a piece on an artist that we love to follow, William Lamson.

Intervention 11.01.07 by William Lamson

The article focuses the relationship between photography and performance, and also showcases the work of artists Melanie Bonajo and Lilly McElroy.

Most of Lamson's work is in fact a mixture of science experiment and performance. In his body of work Interventions (which we've featured in multiple editions here) Lamson mixes a little bit of the mundane everyday that we tend to take for granted with surprising or startling elements of play and displacement.

Intervention 01.08.08 by William Lamson

Lamson's website functions not only as an artist's C.V., but as a viable alternative to being able to experience his work in person. Many pieces contain video features, and I can and have easily spend a lot of time completely engrossed in his many investigations that are concerned with the relationship between man, nature and time.

Timeline, 40 ft wall drawing with fuse and firecrackers, by William Lamson

Until I can make my way into an exhibition showing Lamson's work and stand in front of it in person, I will more than happily make do with his awesome web presence and in profiles like the ones in the pages of Aperture.