Shard | Egg paint On broken glass With wire mesh |
T hursday I got out and did some shooting in Warrensburg. It was a beautiful day, warm and sunny for February. Being abstract week in my Color Imaging class, my eye was tuned-in to nonrepresentational subjects. As I walked around, I found this “window of opportunity” at the back of a small non-descript austere building. The resulting image is a comment on different materials and the spatial relationships between various overlapping compositional parts jointed by a linear grid.
The opaque white paint feels organic as it flows alongside the curves of the layers of broken glass. Both the broken glass and the wire grid fracture and segment the entire picture space while simultaneously tying the work together. The light delineating the wire on the left and the coating of dust on the glass add textural interest.
An important but mysterious component of human experience exists unconsciously below the surface of perception and beyond the reach of controlled and focused thinking. Abstract art has the potential to tap into this realm, frequently deepening the mystery rather than resolving it.
“The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.” - Brooks Anderson
