Worlds apart

#313
Source material: Fabric, word list.
I keep being enthralled by the images from this photo shoot. The material looks good enough to eat. Here, the idea was to place a mental barrier between the viewer and fabric. The word list is a bunch of synonyms for the word "barrier."


#312
Source material: Clouds, kindergarten eyechart, globe.
A very lovely sunset a couple nights ago produced these clouds, which when turned upside down, reminded me of photos of the Earth from orbiting spacecraft. This image and #311 took on a very formal presentation of diverse images.


#311
Source material: Spring, tree, dogwood blossom (monitor capture), kindergarten eyechart.
These images sort of represent a fairly small circle of my world. The spring is from a sculpture above my desk, the dogwood projected on my monitor and re-photographed, and the tree from across the street.

I would like to point out that the multi-panel series from last week has been reworked, and can be seen here.

Spring Creek Massacre

What a mess. I thought the idea for this week's work was a good one, but the results seem to refute that. I took twelve frames of Spring Creek as I walked along the water's edge; an odd, disjointed panorama that somehow still gave the flavor of the place. I wanted to treat each frame individually with multiple overlay collage elements, then combine all twelve in one piece, intensifying the jaggedness of misaligned frames, but somehow keeping the creek intact and distinguished.

The individual pieces are now posted, and the combined work can be seen on the "featured" gallery of my website. Your feedback is welcome. I like the white unfinished area, since I couldn't decide how to finish it anyway; does the creek come out in good shape, or does it suffer continual abuse?

#309
Source material: Spring Creek, checkered wrapping paper.


#308
Source material: Spring Creek, checkered wrapping paper, oil drill chart, bullet-riddled metal sign.


#307
Source material: Spring Creek, oil drill chart, bullet-riddled metal sign.


#306
Source material: Spring Creek, checkered wrapping paper.


#305
Source material: Spring Creek.


#304
Source material: Spring Creek.


#303
Source material: Spring Creek, oil drill chart, Modoc Motors sign.


#302
Source material: Spring Creek, checkered wrapping paper, oil drill chart.


#301
Source material: Spring Creek, checkered wrapping paper, oil drill chart, spring.

Woodblocks

#300
Source material: Log wheel, woodblock type.
Looking at the repair job of this wheel, more evident in image #299 (wedges of wood hammered in), I was reminded of woodblock type and decided to explore what these two elements might look like together. In the first attempt, seen below, I kept elements separate to contrast them. Here I let them run together to see what patterns they would make. It's almost as if the wood were returning to it's more natural state.

#299
Source material: Log wheel, woodblock type.
I love how such a simple word can have so many definitions, leaving it wide open as to how you might resolve the meaning in your own way.

Abrupt Edges

#298
Source material: Log wheel.
A recent trip to Chiloquin and the nearby logging museum netted this and the following, both turned into a diptych with the idea that two images of the same object need not line up to give the flavor of the thing and the chasm even adds a little conceptually.


#297
Source material: Log wheel.


#296
Source material: Ashland clouds.
With summer weather comes great cloud formations, and living at the floor of a valley, there is usually more than one view that is special. This and the following two images have been made into a triptych even though they’re sort of and not quite contiguous. I like the abrupt changes at the edge, and still there’s a sense that it’s all the same scene.


#295
Source material: Ashland clouds.
The choice of color (or lack of) was made so to focus on composition, modulation and patterns. The deep blue and golden clouds of the reality were nice, but hey, it’s art.


#294
Source material: Ashland clouds.
I left just a sliver of Grizzly Peak for reference.
This triptych and the above diptych are viewable on my portfolio website “featured” page.