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Paintings
I have always been attracted to paintings with an ethereal sense about them and feel that some of my photographic images have a painterly awareness to them. (See my thoughts on art theory.) Some of these images are abstract, blurred by movement, and even intentionally out of focus. There may be a connection between the ethereal construct that I have when describing the life-after-life images that I have been working on. There is an illusive feeling about blurred images and images that are not sharply focused photographically.
All images are printed on canvas.
Perhaps it is because of the difference between what the eye expects to see—a sharply focused image—and what the blurred image forces the eye to see. It may also have something to do with the viewer’s preconceptions of what the viewer perceives as “ghostly.”
This ethereal kind of imagery takes the viewer into an entirely different place. This may be why I am drawn to this stylized effect. I am interested in the spiritual side of life and what we cannot see with the naked eye. The idea of seeing something that is not literal is interesting and very difficult to create. There are many possibilities and interpretations in this work, which is fine with me as long as it is seen as something more than our simple, tangible, parting world.
The images below are a combination of many processes. All begin with a photograph. The life that the image takes on varies depending on what I see in the image. Some of the images were retouched in the computer, while others were hand painted using a variety of materials.
This painting consists of three 2 x 4 wall mounted images.
Painted and final on wall.
Below are several before and after images.
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