Since the '80s my own curiosity had me toying with the new media - sometimes to create imagery other times to prepare images to be presented both as material objects and as well as images for the ever expanding virtual world of the internet, this website alone, stands as record.
In my own case one series of works, after years of trying, helped me bridge the dichotomy of the world of painting with the world of photography. Through the use of a computer program I was able to abstract, in a painterly fashion, my photographic explorations of a common material of nature - the subsequent images are referred to as 'The Nature that Loves to Hide Series' and distinguished by the restricted palette of color image to image.
Talked about in several of the books, the series might have become my final formula for an aesthetic - and that was in fact the reason I moved to other venues: the exploration had become little more than a 'formula' (an exercise of mercantilism rather than a creative odyssey into the whatelseness that mind could offer as art).
Below is a brief carousel of digital computer imagery from my suite. Note - some images in the carousel are only details from full images.
Generally I do not embellish with digital filters my photographs outside the rudimentary sizing and adjustments for contrast, et al. But one assortment of nature photos has been arranged as a book and a SHARE LINK is provided below. The title of the book reads: In the Lull of My Season; explained in the book, the imagery depicts a specific time in nature, ostensibly a season of its own that for me reflects the most noetically charged opportunity to experience and contemplate Nature in its intimate wonder.
On a personal note, treating the photographs to a painterly device found in a computer program is an example of the bridge that I was able to construct between the aesthetic differences of my two favored image-making paths: Painting and Photography. Utilizing this new found medium is accommodating to say the least; yet I do attempt to maintain the validity for the less high-tech treatments to render creative imagery - I will not be tossing my pigments any time soon for I enjoy the sovereignty they provide.
SHARE LINK In the Lull of My Season
