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Sonnie Barrington Mason is a native of Washington, D.C. and received his formal photographic training in the U.S. Air Force, and Los Angeles Trade Tech College. He worked for the District Government as a still photographer. After 30 years, he now freelances as a commercial / industrial photographer.
Mason's art work has been included in both nationally and abroad including solo exhibitions, International Visions Gallery and Black Pearl Gallery, Washington, D.C. and the collections of US State Department's Art in Embassies Exhibition, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, "Celebrate America", Accra, Ghana, "The Washington We Know", The Capitol Children's Museum, Washington, D.C., "Nudes", Washington Gallery of Photography, "Images of the Mid-Atlantic" Washington Gallery of Photography and "Entre Luces Sombras", National Theather of Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
Images From The Mind’s Eye
Our eyes simply gather the information to be processed. How we interpret that information is another matter. Joseph Chilton Pearce said it well in his book The Crack In The Cosmic Egg: “We impose our categories on what we see in order to see. We see through the prism of our categories.”
This series of images is about options regarding visual interpretation. If we suspend our knowledge of the subject (set aside our categories), it could be anything, or open to unrestrained interpretation.
Using the camera’s lens, I now present images from my mind’s eye. They were recorded on film as you see them here, without computer manipulation.
As for the triptych pieces, they too are crafted to study other forms of non-reality, dreams, illusions, and altered states of mind.
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