Posted by Steve Durbin on September 25th, 2007
Another re-visitation in my recent tour was the Montana ghost town of Bannack, where I have photographed my Ghost Light series. Although I’m not sure a project ever really ends, it does go through phases. I feel this one is nearly dormant: I still enjoy the location, I find photographs I want to make, but there’s a sense of approaching completion. The initial vision was about spaces and light and the stories suggested there (someone wrote me she kept looking at one of the pictures while, in fact, writing a story). Now I’m filling out with additions that make a more rounded view of the place, but may not advance the key ideas much.
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Posted by Hanneke van Oosterhout on September 24th, 2007
I’ve been doing a lot of painting and now I am preparing a website for the images. Here is one that was photographed today. Comments?
Posted by Birgit Zipser on September 22nd, 2007
Inspired by textures of rock and water, I studied beach texture at a popular creek flowing into a Great Lake.
I mostly came early in the morning, not to inconvenience little people playing at the creek. But one morning, there was a retired person from Arizona reminiscing about his favorite childhood haunt. more… »
Posted by Sunil Gangadharan on September 21st, 2007
Some time back (2005) the BBC conducted a poll in England that asked people to pick out the most popular painting in their land. In a field crowded with van Gogh’s evocative pictures and Monet’s breathtaking impressions, the winner turned out to be a rather ordinary-by-today’s-standards painting by J.M.W. Turner titled the ‘The Fighting Temeraire’. Somewhat more surprising was the fact that the second prize also went to a similarly bucolic oil painting by Constable – ‘The Haywain’. (Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck was ranked fourth – one of my favorites) more… »
Posted by Steve Durbin on September 18th, 2007
I just returned from a short trip that, as it turned out, provided the opportunity to revisit some previous locations and subjects. It was interesting to notice what I found interesting this time around, what I did differently, and whether there is any direction apparent. Today I’ll focus on the color abstracts in my ongoing Patina project, which is based on surfaces of junkyard vehicles and weathered rocks.
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Posted by Sunil Gangadharan on September 13th, 2007
Recently, I embarked on a little mini project in a bid to better understand the vagaries of photography. I find photography a hard master and am still unable to photograph my paintings to the level of detail I want… This mini-project may just be regarded as another attempt at understating photography better. The premise was simple: Instead of turning the camera to outside subjects like “people, landscape, houses, family’, I decided to turn it inwards. I decided that I was going to photograph just objects in and around the confines of our home. What initially was envisaged as a dull chronicle of household items turned out to be quite an exciting one (at least for me).
Sunil Gangadharan, ‘Juxtaposition’, digital photograph
I took about 50 pictures in a space of about two hours. All of them shot inside. I have posted a majority of them to the flickr site here. To see as slideshow click here.
So, instead of asking some serious art question (which I frequently find myself thinking more and more), I decided to take it easy and play.
Posted by Angela Ferreira on September 10th, 2007
Sitting and meditating lately about what is really life about that makes up get up in the morning and carry on as artists…
Is it how much money you got in the bank? The partner of our dreams? That new car you been saving up? The Exhibition you booked for?
Or is it the peace of mind, security and happiness that all this acquirements provide us?
What is really life about?
It’s very easy to confuse values with goals, but they are very different – goals are specific ways in which you might express your values…
Now, think for yourself, what you really value in your life? You might say “my job”, but then ask yourself “What is your job in the service of?” You might answer “Financial security”. Keep asking the same question “What is financial security in the service of?” Keep on asking the question until can’t find an answer and you have found your value.
Values are what life is about, and it it’s all about happiness. Know your values! Happiness is what makes my life worth for, ask yourself!
Everything else my dear collegues, it will before long turn to dust…
