Edges
I just got back from a weeklong photographic workshop with Connie Imboden up a the Maine Media Workshops. It was an amazing experience and I’ll write more about it later, but one thing in particular stuck with me. Connie repeatedly emphasized paying attention to the edges of the frame. The constrictions of the photographic form force us into a defined compositional shape, but the form can be a source of creative seeing as well. (more…)
Creating New Work
My creative process is an exploratory (and often random) one. It’s through the creation of the mirrors from sheets of metal and the subsequent photography that an image- an idea- reveals itself. I find rather than plan.
Inevitability of Change
It had been a long day, one neither of them wanted to end. Light had faded to night hours ago and dawn threatened to come all to soon and with the dawn, she had to leave. They had savored every moment, trying to hold something of each other- some sight, some smell, some taste-that would last beyond their parting. In the darkness they promised each other they would stay in touch, but both knew things would never be the same. They would never be the same person who laid there that evening. Not even when the dawn came. (more…)
Color Exploration
I’ve been exploring the use of color in the metal mirror art nudes.
Sometimes subtle. Sometimes brash. Color has been bringing something new to the work.
Ending or Evolution?
How do you know when a project has ended?
I have been working on the metal mirror series of art nudes for nearly two years. (more…)
Revisiting Previous Work
I spent some time revisiting images I made as part of a shoot last year. I didn’t originally intend to spend a day going back through an old Lightroom catalog, but a hard drive crash and rebuild necessitated a few hours spent reconnecting files. And in doing so I reconnected with some work I had forgotten about.
The New England Portolio Review: A Community of Artists
Portfolio Review
As artists we all need feedback and critiques in order to grow and portfolio reviews offer to provide it. Sometimes that feedback takes the form of subtle guidance and sometimes it comes as a shocking gut check, especially when we become too close to a body of work. Tim Gunn refers to this as “living in the monkey house”- when you first walk in the smell is completely overwhelming, but after awhile the stench fades until you no longer notice it. Critique can help an artist wake up and smell the monkey crap. (more…)