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Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, yellow, red, blue, muted, streaks, sweeping, circles, patterns, shapes

Focus

Red Blue Green With White Swirls, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) Writing a blog post every week for the past year has certainly helped focus my thoughts about what I'm making. This idea of chaos vs order is clearly fundamental to what I'm exploring. Until recently I could really only articulate ...

Creative Arc

I've spent a great deal of time contemplating the arc of my creative efforts. I had it in my mind that I was expected to have a single statement or some unifying theme that would explain all my efforts to date and potentially forecast where I'm going. I'm beginning to feel disillusioned by this process. ...
A Priori series, day, colour photograph, art, creative, landscape, yellow, blue, mountains, rocks

Photograph As Window

Inked Photo On Paper, 1994 :: (Click to see more) In speaking with my grandmother last night, she talked about an early work of mine she has where I broke the bounds of the photographic frame by drawing and colouring - extending the image beyond the photograph. Her comment - this piece was from an ...

Photograph As Document

There seems to be a move back to photography as a document. Perhaps this is a backlash or result of the artifice or rather, the perceived artifice that digital photography and programs like Photoshop can achieve. The odd thing about this (mis)perception is the ready consumption of artificial imagery in advertising and popular media like ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, red, orange, vibrant, streaks, patterns

Where Is Now?

Blood Red Streaks Beside Pouring White Hot Yellow Streaks, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) I've been slowly reading a book called The Power Of Now by Echkart Tolle which surprisingly I am finding resonance with. I say surprisingly because I tend not to like spiritual concepts forced on me. I prefer ...
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