My abstract photography takes place, exists, in three separate places or realms:
The first space is the studio in which I make my work. This is a private environment in which, because I am alone and unobserved I can allow myself to escape from the world and to play. Here I am allowed to make as many mistakes as I like without the embarrassment of having to admit them or show them to others. I can do what I wish and take as long as I wish in the doing of it. I can follow the silliest of ideas and there is nobody there to see me doing it.
The second space is where the presentation of what has been achieved in the first space, is made. This is radically different from the studio space. Here everything has changed: other people are involved and subsequently my entire being in that realm is changed and so too is the artwork, forever. I no longer feel free. It seems that there are now many other responsibilities and duties upon my shoulders. I also have a sense that I must form a relationship that is outside myself; that is, a relationship with a real or imaginary audience.
The third space is in fact, one that doesn’t actually need to be entered into (as neither does the second space, presentation), but, is hard to resist: it is the temptation to interpret and to articulate, of which the piece on the home page, about the unknown landscape, is an example. This space also harbours the temptation to reveal what happens in the studio.
The first space is the studio in which I make my work. This is a private environment in which, because I am alone and unobserved I can allow myself to escape from the world and to play. Here I am allowed to make as many mistakes as I like without the embarrassment of having to admit them or show them to others. I can do what I wish and take as long as I wish in the doing of it. I can follow the silliest of ideas and there is nobody there to see me doing it.
The second space is where the presentation of what has been achieved in the first space, is made. This is radically different from the studio space. Here everything has changed: other people are involved and subsequently my entire being in that realm is changed and so too is the artwork, forever. I no longer feel free. It seems that there are now many other responsibilities and duties upon my shoulders. I also have a sense that I must form a relationship that is outside myself; that is, a relationship with a real or imaginary audience.
The third space is in fact, one that doesn’t actually need to be entered into (as neither does the second space, presentation), but, is hard to resist: it is the temptation to interpret and to articulate, of which the piece on the home page, about the unknown landscape, is an example. This space also harbours the temptation to reveal what happens in the studio.