I make stuff. That's how i describe myself if asked if I'm an artist. I draw, I paint, I create assemblages, i photograph, I make computer images…. I make stuff.
I don't know how to label a lot of my stuff because there is so much of everything I do in each piece. Straight photographs are one thing, its a photograph, or its a documentary photograph, a street photograph, a story etc…
And i guess a traditional painting and drawing are simple. But a computer creation just doesn't seem to cut it calling it Computer art. I think of a lot of my computer pieces as being as much about painting and photography as they are about the technology. They are about history and technique, but using images to hopefully get beyond the technique. Sometimes they do, most times they do not.
I have been working on a series of images I call Faux Tintypes. I'm not really trying to fool anyone to thinking the image is a tintype(an old process of putting some elusion on metal and making a photograph that often has some texture and flaws that are just inherent to the imprecise nature of the technique and style. The texture or grit creates an almost atmospheric emotion.
The image above was an image i was working on some time ago that went another level beyond the faux tintype and was run through a grunge app on my iPhone as well.
I struggle with whether these are just clever or if there is something to them. Its not unlike Odd Nerdrum's distressing of canvases to give them and old feel(Though admittedly--I'm not nor are any of my pieces Odd Nerdrum!)
I think of them as painting, but using photographs and computers to make them. And I'm not sure if I'll do much with them, though an Etsy Account is forthcoming to get out there work that perhaps should be out of the closet(or hard drive) and i think these pieces will perhaps find their way there and hopefully into people's homes.
Trying to decide it Making just one to sell is a good idea to give it a sense of one of a kind worth, or limited series?
I'll continue to struggle with these issues, but I'll keep making them--or something else?
I don't know how to label a lot of my stuff because there is so much of everything I do in each piece. Straight photographs are one thing, its a photograph, or its a documentary photograph, a street photograph, a story etc…
And i guess a traditional painting and drawing are simple. But a computer creation just doesn't seem to cut it calling it Computer art. I think of a lot of my computer pieces as being as much about painting and photography as they are about the technology. They are about history and technique, but using images to hopefully get beyond the technique. Sometimes they do, most times they do not.
I have been working on a series of images I call Faux Tintypes. I'm not really trying to fool anyone to thinking the image is a tintype(an old process of putting some elusion on metal and making a photograph that often has some texture and flaws that are just inherent to the imprecise nature of the technique and style. The texture or grit creates an almost atmospheric emotion.
The image above was an image i was working on some time ago that went another level beyond the faux tintype and was run through a grunge app on my iPhone as well.
I struggle with whether these are just clever or if there is something to them. Its not unlike Odd Nerdrum's distressing of canvases to give them and old feel(Though admittedly--I'm not nor are any of my pieces Odd Nerdrum!)
I think of them as painting, but using photographs and computers to make them. And I'm not sure if I'll do much with them, though an Etsy Account is forthcoming to get out there work that perhaps should be out of the closet(or hard drive) and i think these pieces will perhaps find their way there and hopefully into people's homes.
Trying to decide it Making just one to sell is a good idea to give it a sense of one of a kind worth, or limited series?
I'll continue to struggle with these issues, but I'll keep making them--or something else?