wilson hurst

latent image intensification

V isions at high speed, we frequently define the landscape from within a self-propelled conveyance that runs on tires. The way we move through the environment dramatically affects perceptive understanding, imposing an external actuality onto a self-centered perspective. Potential shrivels when encased in a sensory bubble traveling along a synthetic highway.

“When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.” - Bertrand Russell

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O rganizing visual clues. After a brief but intense period of photographing the Badlands scenery, I come back to the “Grinder” series with an image that evokes an alien landscape. Certain parts of the image, by virtue of directionality, texture, and tone, give a sense of depth and dimension. Moreover, as is the case with many of the images in this series, scale is indeterminate as discovery and exploration happens on all levels.

“The power of a well-defined process is the creation of order amidst chaos. When it works, it can be like a fine-tuned machine, and our design work is better for it.” - Erin Malone

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A rt informs more art. The new “Plastic Art” image series is a visual pun on the art term historically used to encompass art forms that involve physical manipulation of a plastic medium. It also references readymade art created from undisguised objects not normally considered art, often because they already have a common non-art function. Formally the series is a direct descendent of my “Floating Elements” series, sharing a similar technical and procedural process.

“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” - George Edward Moore

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P hotographed with my infrared converted camera at the same time as the image captured in the previous post, this was an experimental image. Using a 28mm 2.8 lens, I was interested to see how much infrared radiation could be recorded at night. The result was full of background hiss, but was usable and offers another version of the evening experience.

“At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect--a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known.” - Robert Adams

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T his is from the second night of the Badlands trip, building on the experience of 24 hours of near non-stop visual exploration. Even while breifly sleeping, images of the recent landscape expereince passed across my cerebral cortex. An actual photographer's paradise, this place is overwhelming in its grandeur and infinite variety. I must go back.

“There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy, and its charm.” - Theodore Roosevelt

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I just returned from a five day trip to the Badlands National Park in South Dakota, of which two days where devoted to travel. It was an extraordinary field trip full of adventure and wonder, including two nights of stargazing from an extraordinary landscape. This is a fantastic way to start the summer vacation.

“The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.” - Theodore Roosevelt

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C orresponding positions with relation to an intervening space, a study of opposing diagonals considers a dipolar world. In mathematics, duality is the assertion that truth is invariant under a specific statement operation. A theorem is an unproven statement; a proven statement is a fact.

“Just because I can imagine a perfect island does not mean that it actually exists. Things are what they are no matter what I think they should be.” - Gaunilo

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A ppearance is how humans most often verify reality. Once things are identified, we establish a quick sorting procedure that categorizes visual stimulation based on expectations. Over time, it seems we lose the ability to create new classifications, and tend to ignore expectation variance.

“Chances are, if you believe the light, you are going to believe that the things photographed physically existed in the world. It's this belief that gives the still photograph its power.” - Henry Wessel

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