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| 18" x 24"/pastel and charcoal on heavy Bee paper |
Clearly there was thought put into this but as I look at it the calculations disappear from my memory. I think that's a good sign that something ethereal, transient yet strong was involved in the process of assembly. How lucky for me! At least that's how I look at it. Making pictures likely has something to do with trying to hold on to time or maybe more precisely to a moment....which is time, I know but when I think of "time" it is usually in chunks so I'm trying to differentiate, be precise. Photographs can hold the future off or hold the past too I suppose but I don't often put a camera in my hand when picture making. Maybe it is something about it's precision...even if the image is manipulated and looks distorted, out of focus, untrue to reality or abstracted in some way. The required calculations are made on a level of consciousness that as a mark maker I don't have to be involved with. Or so I'm thinking. Maybe photographers have totally uncalibrated results, too?
I wonder if the exercise of comparing hand rendered art to photographic art is worthwhile? Certainly, I think, the immediacy of a gesture with charcoal, pencil or pastel in hand and the resulting mark(s) is different than the capture/impression of pixels...it seems almost that the difference is like a vacuum cleaner to a broom. The camera sucks in all the available stuff; the broom is guided as it collects. Interesting comment from someone who knows nothing about photography, huh?
I like trying to figure stuff out but maybe like some, try working at it with less than an adequate amount of information!
I do know from looking at this piece that I got myself perfectly. If the lens were pointed directly at me it couldn't have captured a better representation.
