Monday, May 21, 2012

Revised 2-D Artist Statement with Images

Artist Statement

            It is far easier to become lost in the process of imagining and crafting work than to explain it verbally. And yet, finding oneself and ones work sometimes just happens in the midst of being lost. Painting with light, or photography, is an intellectually and spiritually stimulating pursuit because its source, light, is intrinsically linked with the photograph’s final form. Light can simultaneously impact one’s vision and light-sensitive material or image sensor in a photographic device, alluring and challenging me. Always illuminating, revealing, exposing, light and its connections to the supernatural and spiritual give the making of images through the use of light dynamic significance, holding my perception captive. Although using photographic technology is now something of an oppressive, overplayed exercise, I am attracted to its meditative possibilities that so often go unemployed. Here I must mention painters like Piet Mondrian and Mark Rothko. But, photographically and conceptually, I should also reference David Maisel’s aerial photographic landscapes as influential to my visual concepts and photographic work.




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