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Scything Off

So I've been working pretty hard lately - actually very hard on several things and you might have noticed I fell a little behind in my posting - missed last week entirely. Well today I took a couple hours of me time and went to see Chasing Ice at the Tiff lightbox - beautiful building ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, orange, vibrant, streaks, swirls, patterns

Tenuous Hold

Orange Flames Licking At Green Streaks, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I find myself struggling today. No idea what to write about except how thick I feel. It's fatigue. Just want to stare into space and think not. A total zone out would be ideal. Even fill the vacuum between my ...

The Audience

Just had an interesting conversation with my cell-mate - my studio partner Stephen about selling art and creating unique pieces. He is in a similar position of exploring possible markets and avenues and has found some interesting web based facilities that will print your images onto just about anything - iphone cases, laptop/tablet skins, pillows, ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, blue, red, muted, sweeping, streaks, layered, patterns

Builder Will

Converging Red Streaks Over Cyan, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (click to see more) My pal Paedric many years ago called me Builder Will - I really like that title - I think it fits me well. I've been called many things of course - as a kid it was Capable William Oldacre, which for ...

The Essence

I read a post yesterday that talked about the essence of a photograph. It made me pause and think about my efforts and why I make the images I do - why I explore the way I do. I also read a couple quotes from Rothko a while ago that struck a chord in me. ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, turquoise, pink, orange, muted, swoops, circles, pattern

Considerations

Deconstructed Pink Orange, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I can't help feeling odd lately. I find myself with a small amount of time on my hands - enough to get down to creative work but I feel the work isn't worth doing. I've been in production mode in my print business working ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, fuchsia, orange, muted, waves, patterns

It Started With Beauty

Green Pink Orange Red Wisps, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (click to see more) When I first began talking about the images I was making, I used to say I was searching for beauty with my work. But as time passed, as I gave it more thought, as I matured (chuckle), I came to realize ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, blue, orange, muted, streaks, patterns

Powerful Emotion

Wisps Across Orangey Blue Strips, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (click to see more) At times like now I have an incredibly strong emotion welling up, humming and filling me up that I find difficult to explain. It's akin to a tremendous sadness, coupled with nostalgia but woven through with happiness and pervaded with tremendous ...

Hibernate

When I woke up this morning it was super dark, cold, blustery and rainy. I just wanted to stay under the covers and forget about all my troubles. And its been a tough day of catching up with all manner of things. But just now I had to head out to deliver some art and ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, yellow, purple, cyan, muted, streaks, patterns

What Is Real?

Oil Sheen Orange Turquoise and Pink, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (click to see more) Read some interesting articles today about reality from a scientific and mathematical perspective. They were illustrating the difficulty of stating an absolute definition of reality. Part of that was to reduce the definition to it's essence. But each time they ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, blue ,vibrant, nebula, streaks, shapes

The Reveal

Green Nebula Blue Dust Cloud, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (click to see more) I saw two really beautiful videos this week that both depicted different aspects of our outward view from Earth. The first video was a time lapse perspective of all the orbiting bodies within our solar system and how we've gradually over ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, purple, blue, muted, streaks, patterns

Fresh Perspective

Blue Green Mauve Ripples, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) After speaking with my nephew about photography and art the other day, I had a fresh realization that there is a great deal behind what I'm doing - that there's a considerable amount of thought in my execution. Perhaps not so much ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, red, muted, streaks, patterns

Perspective

Tribute to Rothko No. 14, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) Lately I've been feeling I am, and in fact we all are, characters upon a stage playing out our little lives amongst ourselves. To what end I'm not sure. But from within our own perspective's our lives are all encompassing - ...

The Problem

I don't know if this happened to you when you were younger, but it happened a lot to me. I was given sage advice from people older than me about my career, my life, my goals - you name it. At the time I thought, what the hell is all this nonsense about. It's no ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion,yellow, green, muted, etching, waves, patterns

Open To Chaos

Burnished Metal Stained Gold Green Brown, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) A couple days ago a pal I haven't seen or heard from since high school friended me on facebook. High school was a looong time ago for me but never mind that part. I found that he's now a singer ...

Acquisition & Elimination

I had a restful week off last week camping in the northerly woods of Southern Ontario at a park I love called Bon Echo in the back country where you have to canoe in to your site on Joe Perry Lake. I had time to contemplate things hanging out under the trees by a lake and ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, orange, pink, muted, frets, stripes, pattern

Shifting Perspective

Dark Frets Across Orange, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) I'm still slowly working through the huge stash of source images for Light Signatures and thinking more about how to present them as physical objects with actual depth past the two dimensional plane of a traditional photograph. To that end I'm visualizing ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, red, green ,vibrant, figures, streaks, patterns, shapes

Insignificant Originality

Red Figures Layered In Green, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) I've been thinking about this for a long time now but it wasn't until I recently watched a Ted talk about SETI with Seth Shostak that I started to frame it in a quantifiable way - so to speak. Seth noted that given ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, orange, mauve, streaks, pattern

A New Phase

Orange Overriding Mauve, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) I'm entering into another phase of my - well dare I say, plan? More a loose collection of ideas, ideals and intents than a coherent plan. All the same I'm entering into a new segment of it. On one hand, I'm excited, or more ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, yellow, muted, helix, twirl, stripes, pattern

Breathtaking Blue

Agloolik Green Aqualine Form Yellow Streaks, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) Nothing new to report this week except the same old neuroses. Finally had the kind of day I dream of having every day. Relaxed but effective and creative. No panic at any point. No crushing deadlines. No feelings of impending ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, oragne, pink, yellow, muted, streaks, , patterns

Light Signatures And Related Ideas

While I was working on this image I had another visualization - in a way a kind of progression of this work. It's a combination of something I've seen and done before with elements of what I've done here with the motion streaks. It was a recognizable urban scene with the streak blurs like a ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, turquoise, pink, muted, streaks, patterns

To Edition or Not To Edition

Green Field Olive Streaks Orange Line, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) This whole concept of editions in photography has been bugging me for a long time. And now more than ever, considering I've printed close to 10,000 linear feet of photographs, illustrations, paintings and pastels for other people I feel I ...
Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, green, oragne, muted, streaks, arc, circles, patterns

Cycle And Alignment

Two Yellow Stripes And Arc On Green, 2012 - Light Signatures :: (Click to see more) For a long time I've thought of my creative interests in terms of coincident cycles or alignments. Everything - literally everything around us, is in constant motion at some level and often on multiple levels. My thinking is all ...

Don’t Worry So Much – Focus

I have a tendency toward impatience for change. I have a clear goal visualized in my head and expect it to happen essentially immediately. Yeah, I know just how immature this is - its an emotional issue. Intellectually I know this is ridiculous and impossible, but emotionally, I want it now! wah! The thing is, I ...

Islands Of Meaning

The other day I accidentally saw an interesting talk by Freeman Dyson broadcast on TVO. He wrapped up quoting James Gleick's book - The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood - saying from this point onward, our function as finite creatures - as humans, is to create islands of meaning in the flood of ...
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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