Creating Chemical Landscapes
Creative people are always stepping outside of evaluation structures. this work may not fit perfectly into the conventions of documentary photography but I stepped outside of it to learn something about the world and my perspective, Abstractfying myself and my ideas to come about a more ordered sense of the world I operate in. Painting and photography. They work hand in hand, the limitations of photography allow me to capture the world objectively that I'm interacting with, On the contrary, painting allows me to go into the depths of subjective experience.
I wanted to create original work, something I or anyone cannot reproduce with consistant results, as Walter Benjamin explains in ‘The work of art in the age of mechanical photography’, that when art is re-produced mechanically over and over, then the Aura of the work is lost. Paintings are a good example of this, when you go to a gallery you want to see the original piece when you can always view the art work on your phone or in a book as many times as you want, but there is a power, an Aura that is bound to the original. So being inspired by a local artist and art theory I wanted to combine painting and photography, so I produced this work on Fuji Instant which I wish to represent as an archetypal message. The originals are negative palm sized images to which I will explain the journey. It's deep,very deep, but this is the birth of what some call 'God' inside of myself, only as I would know it, a breakthrough in visual thinking, a clear reflection of myself. The outcome is an ordered sense of reality.
I wanted to create original work, something I or anyone cannot reproduce with consistant results, as Walter Benjamin explains in ‘The work of art in the age of mechanical photography’, that when art is re-produced mechanically over and over, then the Aura of the work is lost. Paintings are a good example of this, when you go to a gallery you want to see the original piece when you can always view the art work on your phone or in a book as many times as you want, but there is a power, an Aura that is bound to the original. So being inspired by a local artist and art theory I wanted to combine painting and photography, so I produced this work on Fuji Instant which I wish to represent as an archetypal message. The originals are negative palm sized images to which I will explain the journey. It's deep,very deep, but this is the birth of what some call 'God' inside of myself, only as I would know it, a breakthrough in visual thinking, a clear reflection of myself. The outcome is an ordered sense of reality.
