Wednesday, February 28, 2007

new works




so i started really asking myself why im taking my work to this juxtapozed, fragmented, hockney style.....
I was inspired by david hockney a few years ago and his style never ceased to get out of my head. i was intrigued and captivated by his approach and also by his immense desire to still refer to himself as only a painter and refer to photography as a hobby of his.....the more work i saw of his, the more i was inspired.
i started going back to all my familiar shooting places and re-evaluating what i wanted to say about these places and these objects....i started thinking how one single image can be mundane...something that can be easily looked at for a minute and passed on in a gallery.... i started thinking about how you could stare at a Rembrandt painting for several minutes, even hours maybe and appreciate all the layers of paint, all the detail and time that went into the piece...but what time is spent in a photograph? isnt it essentially just a fragment of a second?.....the shortest amount of time possible? its the opposite of effort essentially.... though the printing process of a photograph can be time consuming, typically it is not for me....now one can send off a digital file and recieve a print in the mail in a mater of days...so you can take a picture in a millisecond and recieve the image in the mail without so much as batting an eye lash...
i started thinking about how with one single image, sometimes you can see things that only a lens can see (wide angle lens for example)...sometimes a photo captures an image that the natural eye cant comprehend (for example an action shot)....i started thinking about if you combine several images to create one cohesive image, the viewer is forced to recognize all the individual images insteaed of focusing on one single image, and BAM,,, intrest from the viewer and time (how long it took to complete the art) are now effective in photography, not only painting now....
also the concept of capturing several seconds in time and connecting them is really interesting me..... instead of capturing a fragment of a second, im capturing several individual fragments of seconds and putting them together..I LOVE THIS SHIT