I looked at expression as an abstract noun back at the beginning of my study in April of 2022, and created a facial expression out of wire for my images. But today, I’m exploring “a manifestation of an emotion, feeling, etc., without words” and communication of emotion through art. In Photography and the Art ofContinue reading “Abstraction, Expression, and Sonification”
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Abstract as a Verb
This last week my images were inspired by some things I read in Photography and the Art of Seeing by Freeman Patterson. He says, “The expressive quality of a photograph depends on the photographer’s ability to abstract, that is, to separate the parts from the whole. Abstracting is recognizing both the basic from of somethingContinue reading “Abstract as a Verb”
Contradictory Abstractions: The Dynamic of Action / Reaction
This morning I read, in Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for the Page, Stage, and Screen by Robert McKee, “Every consequential moment in life pivots around a dynamic of action/reaction. In the physical realm, reactions are equal, opposite, and predictable in obedience to Newton’s third law of motion; in the human sphere, the unforeseenContinue reading “Contradictory Abstractions: The Dynamic of Action / Reaction”
Contradictory Abstractions: The Synthesis of Beauty and Ugliness
It’s the last day of the first month of the new year, and I woke up early, tore apart my mirrorworld, and started fresh. Though conceptually I feel like my ideas are coming together, the images aren’t yet what I’ve been hoping for. How about you? How did your month go? This week I’m exploringContinue reading “Contradictory Abstractions: The Synthesis of Beauty and Ugliness”
Dialectic Thinking and the Study of Contradictory Abstractions
Last week, while thinking about the first of my new calls to action “To find the truth in deceit and the deceit in truth; either deceive the truth, or unveil the deceit” (I now think reveal works better than unveil), the idea of deceiving truth, along with the blues songs I’ve been studying, got meContinue reading “Dialectic Thinking and the Study of Contradictory Abstractions”
Experience Writing 