3 Colors of One

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I will have two pieces displayed at two different galleries the month of March. 

"Portrait of One" will be displayed for first Thursday at the Ultrecht Gallery, downtown Portland.

1122 NW Everett St.

"Birds" will be displayed at the Sixth Street Gallery downtown Vancouver, WA

105 West Sixth Street, Vancouver, WA 98660

If you are around this area you should check out my art work at either of these venues. 

Reminder! In June I will have a photograph published in a magazine. More details to come.

Temple parts

Fire Hydrant 83

La strada che stabilisce in anticipo

Random buildings

Titles

Incipient Door 

I see titles as a way to help the audience make a leap into the experience of the piece. Unfortunately I see more and more art pieces being title "Untitled 2008" or "Untitled 356", while their statement is so strong their title lacks and I leave feeling that the work is all bullshit.

WORDS TO LIVE BY;

Jump, it's worth the risk.

From the Inside out (they're watching)

Painting with Light

Painting with light can be very hard if you have a preset outcome in your head. Or it can be fun, this is the route I choose. This is just a simple fun project, with a long exposure. I took the fire and painted with it. Already now we've been subject to these images in commercials, but none the less it's still fun. As photographers we are completely different. We see and understand things differently, we are artist of the light. Wether it be strobes, flashes, car light, or form the stars. We use light as our brush and color (or lack of). These images have not been photoshoped except to place my name in them, other than that they are in original form. This is natural photography. As an artist we use photoshop to brighten our palette, but it is not a crutch and we don't need it.

WORDS TO LIVE BY;

Use the smoke screen. They'll never know.

Bicycle Zen

Train Yard

A Lighting Storm in Las Vegas

In 2008 there was beautiful weather that I really loved, a lighting storm.  I was out without my camera, and I was arriving home soon. When I came home I quickly grabbed my camera and went out and waited for lighting. I took several shot, but this was the one that actually captured a nice lighting bolt. I love weather, and the beauty that it causes in nature. Capturing light is not always as easy as it seems.

Words to Live By;

Paint, draw, photograph, dance, sing, or write. Do what moves you and your heart will sing.

Nihon Monkey

Bending Time

Today

The sun shines

The clouds appear 

Light is let through

Light is my brush

The world a canvas

With variant endings and beginnings

Step inside my reality

Words to live by:

It's a mystery this life, but enjoy what you have.

We may not enjoy living together, but dying together isn't going to solve anything.

Are You Watching Closely

Lantern Temple

The Dancer

No Words between Lies

Cell Phone Cameras

So I recently updated my phone and now it has a camera. I know almost everyone that ha phone has a camera attached to it. Cell phone camera and digital cameras have led to the fall of quality of photography. I know this sounds dismal and hypocritical but it's true. Yes I use digital photography, but that is not to say that I have completely given up on film, rather that I know the major downfalls of film.

Film is beautiful and nothing can change that but here it is, the major downfall especially in our current environmental and social context, is that film is environmental damaging with all the chemical and all the silver it uses and creates waste.

So why do I still think that the quality of photography has taken a loop toward the hole? Easy, and convenience. Yeah that's it. It's to easy to pick up a digital camera of phone and shoot. This can even apply to film, and the quality is not as soupier to film. This had caused a loss of jobs for photographers, and if your asking what or how here it is. Time Magazine has published and does publish cell phone photos and there it is. Travel photographers and photojournalist are losing jobs. So it has affect the commercial industry where else does this apply?

Where I live and I'm sure where you live to there are tons of photographers and everyone is competing for work. I don't know about you but I've tried to sell photos at sport events and such ( I have sold photos, but it doesn't make any money not when you factor in cost of driving, and time), only to see that there are people that can afford better equipment and aren't trying to sell it but give it away. Where does this leave someone like me. Hungry, and always looking for work. 

There is also billions of photographers that shoot weddings and if you are like me then you can see that their work is nothing special, and most of the time they try to fix their mistakes by photoshoping the images, and it is APPARENT and looks like shit. At studios they prefer people that have NO experience or NO knowledge of photography working at the studio (I know  first hand). Lighting has taken a backseat in many of images, because of digital cameras, and phones.

I can go one forever about this, but forget about the bad. Let's look to the future. There is some sweet smells in the pile of shit. I don't have to spend lots of money on film, now. Film cameras are cheaper now. I can improve my lighting that much faster, and my learning curve is much different. I can use and own the large format camera, medium format that I would never been able to before. I take my knowledge from film and apply it to digital. 

This also gives young children a better opportunity to experience photography, and just like any art form experience is beneficial.

Photography also now has a different opportunity. It can become a great medium and take different forms and routes in the art arena. We aren't killing the environment with each roll being processed, and now WE can bring photography to another level, and reform it to this new DIGITAL AGE of bigger, better, faster.

WORDS TO LIVE BY;

Let the light paint your world.

Artist Statement

Does this  portrait remind anyone of a famous portrait by Mapplethorpe?
 

As an artist you have to write and eventually become good at it. What artist write are proposals, statements, bios and beyond that could be critiques of art. Unfortunately, artistically speaking I know we suffer or lack in this department. By that I mean we can't find the right words  or know how to say exactly what we're trying to say. 

It's the artist statement that we use to help clarify the work and the various meaning that you the audience can come up. It's a step in the right direction, but you still find your own way.

I have been reading and seeing more and more statements that sound very compelling but when you juxtapose their art to the statement you find  HUGE discrepancies. Even to the point that all of their pieces are Untitled 2008. This too me is unintelligent and maybe instead of putting bullshit in your statement you should spend more time with your work and title the damn thing.

I've seen this go the other way too. Their statements seem very childish, and then the work has very direct meaning titles. This is still unintellectual work. The despairing thing is I've seen enough photographic work that this applies too, and it just makes photography look terrible, and moronic. 

I will try harder to make it clear and make me as an artist seem intelligent. We as artist are, but we choose to communicate in another form which is second nature to us. WE are intelligent and now it's our time to prove it.

Words to live by;

Listen and you will know

Cycling.

You may have noticed that I have several images relating to bikes. This is because I love cycling, road, mountain and I'd love to try cyclocross.  It's an pleasurable transportation and makes commuting, or shopping fun. Especially out here where rain or showers are common.

 Why bring up cycling on a photo web site?

Good question. Cycling is such a part of my life weather it's taking photos of action, bikes, or parts.

Another good reason to bring this up is it's a way to help the environment instead of driving ride your bike instead. Even if it's only one time you'll feel better. If you make that leap once you may be able to do it once a week. Not only are you helping the world and your community,  your helping yourself, and it's fun. Your also becoming part  of the cycling community.

It's also away for me to show some bike related images and photographs, and a way for me to help support One Ghost Industries.

 This is a remake of an lithography I saw.