Gallery

In March I have a piece being displayed at Sixth Street Gallery in Vancouver, WA. This is another step into the direction of an artist life.

You can check out the gallery website at;

http://www.sixthstreetgallery.com/

Support you local artist and art community.

Can art and photography be the same or is to realist to be taken for granted? Do you see a photography and think this is art or merely a documentation or the real world? 

Words to live by:

"The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own" -Brassai

THE PHOTO LIFE

I am a photographer, filmmaker, and most of an artist. This is what helps me get through may day when there is nothing but a crappy day to look forward to. It is art that drives me through the tunnels or darkness with no headlights. And yet I find my way into the clouds of a heavenly place. It is photography that that takes me from reality to neoreality.
I live, sleep, and dream of art. It is not a blessing. I have to obtain the perfect piece, but I do not know what it is or how it'll exist in my mind or reality. It is thew question that you cannot find the answer, or maybe there is no answer.  This is a life of dreams and fantasy. A life where there is now reality. There are no rules there is only information for the audience to determine what is left of their reality and understand once given this information. 

This is the Photo Life....

Welcome...

 

Leave the rules behind...

More infor...

In case you are wondering. Yes, each and very photo I display are mine unless I say otherwise. 

If you see an image and you like to leave feedback please do. 

If you like art and love to watch things about art or artist check out;

Simon Schama's

Power of Art

BBC Video

A painting that is also very beautiful is a painting I love, but I cannot remember the name of the artist of the title of the piece. It is a painting or two people kissing but the heads are covered by bags. If anyone knows the artist or title please let me know

Cheers

 

Some Information

Just a short word. Check out the ads. We're all just working because we need the money.  Once again it's snowing. Not that it's bad, but will it ever end?

  Also I invite you to leave comments or feedback. Maybe you want to add to this open conversation, please do.

Words to live by;

May peace be in your heart and in your mind.

What is Photography to you?

 This is a question that I seem to be consistently asking myself. It's a way to define my art work, and possible search my artist bleeding soul for answers. Sometimes it's a way to document a moment in time. This moment is unlike any other moment because now I have captured it, and sometimes it's something that cannot be seen again. This can be in nature, or society, or in a little room crowd with friends.

 Photography has also been something

that I find aesthetic pleasing. In a way that is part of the documentation of things too. These two ideas take me further into where I can explore a new world. Every time I search for a location or see something that catches my eye, it becomes an adventure. A way to explore a  world with limitless opportunities, and outcomes. 

My art just pushes this further and sometimes it's a very specific idea that I want to explore. Other times my art is a way to recreate a moment that does not exist. Because photography is such an realistic medium for art, I like to play with that idea and create false moments that serve my purpose. What is comes down to is that my art through photography creates mini worlds that make the audience stop... and contemplate on what's being said, weather it's through the title juxtaposing  the image or creating a unique world.

 

Photography is a mean to communicate to the world that there is something you and me maybe missing. WE should stop and observe what's here...

What does photography mean to you? Let me know.

Words to live by;

Look at the world and then live with it.

Black & White vs Color

Some photographers are only Black & White Fine Art Photographers, while others are just Photographers (commercial, Art, Wildlife, Science....). 

Why such a big defining division? Is it because B&W holds such nostalgic value? Can it be that people endure everyday life in color and it's a way to escape and live another world? I believe that it may just have to due with the way we perceive the lack of color, and force ourselves to look at an image in shades and tones. It just stops us, as if mesmerized by some Siren trying to lure us in to our death, instead we stop and think a moment. Sometimes this brings us to utilize our brain, other times we are fooled by pretensiuos artist with there camera in hand saying absoloutly nothing but bullion pours from their mouth into our eyes and waste our time.

Alright this maybe a bit too much but I've seen it, and it doesn't always come in B&W. There's nothing wrong with B&W, I still shoot it and love it. I'm just saying that a lawn chair sitting on grass, shoot in B&W title; "Untitled 4" or "Lawn Chair" isn't intelligent art, and waste my time. 

There are plenty or good work that's in color and B&W. Not one of them is better, but using B&W to pass crappy shots as art is really trashy. On the same note, photoshop has this same default, but that's for another time.

  B&W  and color are equally good. Especially when color is used in a specific manner. 

If you have any thought please let me know....

Words to live by:

Just because it's there today doesn't mean it'll be there tomorrow.

Products

Product photography can be very interesting, and depending on the outlet (were it will be view) some are beautiful photos, while other (I will not name sites, or magazines, because I'm sure we can all find them) lay flat, limp , and dead. Much  like the fragrant smell of dog shit first thing in the morning this is nothing that I want to see or be apart of, which is unfortunate because there is a lot of good work out there.

 Why do I bother bring this up, well here it is in BLACK & WHITE.... I can do this. Yes I said it and mean it. Why can't I?  I've seen the good the bad and the ugly, now it's my turn.

I will be trying to put up some photos and you let me know..... Am I off or am I not only on target but flying through it......

Just a start

Alright so now I've started it, the actual documentation of my photo life. Hey it's a start and we'll see where it goes from here. I guess the first thing I should say is that I do not consider myself a writer so bear with me. Next is I love photography film, and art but not necessary in that order, just forget the order and know those things. Order just confuses things. 

 As of now I have some work published and some soon to be published (May/June 2009). I am also always trying to get some work into galleries, and different venues. So we will see how that goes.

Oh yeah did I mention that I've only lived here for a year, and where is here, somewhere were the sun is rare, and it's all bloody inside too!

Like I said this is just a start so we'll see how long this goes, and  how often from here.

Words to live by:

Try not to choke on your own saliva.