Bring on the Bling

I use in photography what I like to call my theory of camouflage. It is what we blend into our everyday, and it is what we avoid observing.  If something isnt shiny, will it still catch your attention. Can something be blank and still be beautiful.

Linings made of Silver, 2010

Feedback, 2010

 

Yin, 2010

Noise, 2010

Beginnings.

Home, Detail

Its always hard to start from scratch. Something new, something questionable, something unknown. I received a blank canvas today. There is something so beautiful about that feeling, the texture, the opportunity to create. As mentioned before, I am accustomed to painting over my past, readdressing the once used canvas and then making it new. Today, I started with white.

Attached is what was accomplished. Currently, it houses the meaning of my today and it gives me opportunity for my tomorrow.

Home, 2010

Home, Detail

Tightrope

Sometimes I feel like Im not moving anywhere. How do we progress in life, make a change. Is it sudden, or will it continue at a static pace that we call reality.

I have been inspired to paint again. My paintings usually consist of layers of my past. I use canvases that once held one painting, and paint over it and start again. I combine paint stripper to tear away at what once was, and then create anew. I feel that this gives me freedom from attachment. It is the process. It is how you go about your action that is the art. The piece may not turn out beautiful, but then again, we all have our own definition of that.

I think that this is a good tool to use in life. I am looking to progress in my career, humanitarian work and art. Sometimes I feel as if I'm moving backward, and sometimes I feel I have stepped over the edge. Is there an end to progress.

Tightrope, 2010

Unreality

              Image. 1. 2010

Real becomes accustomed, but what becomes impractical. There are certain ways of looking at things, what makes something unreal. And, can photography prove its truth or does it play on the imaginary.

Currently reading a biography on gallerist Leo Castelli. Very interesting man, and grew to see the unreal, real. It has been making me question how accepting we as a society have become,...whether it be in the idea of art, or in the idea of life. What makes something substantial .

Fascinations

Americans, 2010

While fishing, I have resurrected some portraits I have done. I really enjoy these. I think individuals are such interesting characters, and its fun to capture their spirit. Its also a difficult thing to see. The way we interact with each other has the tendency to fascinate me. And I question if that give and pull we have with each other can in fact be felt in a photo. You can see the overall picture, but when you find the faults it can hold a new meaning than before.

Family Portrait, 2010

Blue and Green, 2010

                                                        

Nancy, 2010

Gone Fishing

Static, 2010

We are constantly surrounded by opportunity, an idea, a movement. These ideas become our everyday, and if we do not act, they become facts. I myself, want to take a hold of this fact, and change it to suit the better. The question I currently am working on is how.... How do I continue to develop my photography while benefiting causes/ programs that I care about... it's a tough one.

There is a short book called "Catching the Big Fish" by David Lynch... Id recommend everyone to flip through it. He talks about meditation and creativity. "Ideas are like fish...If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful."