new series : no love

whats going on?

i went shooting today with my gorgeous boyfriend dustin, and here is what i found...

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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

solo show

one of the first things people ask me, especially photographers is "what kind of camera do you use?" To me thats like asking a painter "what kind of paintbrush do you use?" I know that seems like a retarded comparison but they are both irrelivant. It is not the camera that is used that means anything, its the process, the artist, the shot itself. I have a Hasselblad. I bought it mainly to be professional. If someone ever wanted me to shoot a wedding (got forbid) or a funeral (why dont we hire photographers for funerals?) or personal portraits i wanted a professional medium to offer. I didnt get the camera for myself, I got it for the prestige of it all, to show people that I should be taken seriously. I cant go on a professional photo shoot with my $200 sony digital camera (Thank you dustin pookie bear), or my polaroid sx70, though i would love to.......I have always been about minimalism. Not focusing on the technology of it all. I dont care about mega pixels, quality of lens, the only thing i care about is creating a photo that makes people recall a memory or changes the way they see the formal monotinous beauty in the world. I have only recently become obsessed with archival preserving methods. But even more than that, I have been concerned with the idea of the Holga. I know this toy has been around for a long time, its a huge trend right now in urban art. But I personally have never experimented with one. I am planning a solo show consisting of all brand new, never before seen photos using a holga with/without color lens'. I want to create photos that are raw, unperfected and full of vibrant color. I love the concept of a toy camera because it prooves (just like the use of a polaroid) that the camera is not essential to create a photo...its the eye of the artist that does ALL the work. the camera is a sidenote

new abstract birds series

new bird series