Wednesday, October 5, 2011

radiation suit

one of my main tools is missing: my camera. after i got hit by the car my poor friend broke.

i have yet to be able to replace it.  until i find an alternative i have to find a temporary replacement.  maybe some kind of craig could help.  but for the next two months, at minimum, i cannot concentrate any cash towards replacing it.

as for options, i have many.  i mean, photography is not the only medium i look to.  perhaps in the recent past i have looked to often to photography. no one medium better or not, just - what is necessary to capture those things in our mind.

currently i have three ancient projects to complete.  it's laughable, or at least makes me laugh when i think on it.  because they are rather simple projects - paintings.  but for me, this is how it has been for some time... "can't even paint three paintings" - well at one time it was just one but over the years they've "piled up" - oh boy that is hilarious but at the same time not.
well that's the process.  a process.

the season, the sun, the light is changing quickly. i had spied some fantastic lines and shadows and shape in the workout room at my company.  they would be great to photograph. but i decided not to pursue them with camera.  maybe i should go out of my way to borrow any camera to capture what i see.  but the importance is not in me.  i also thought to go and sketch out the lines. but it is the layer of light and interaction with visible content that is mainly attractive in this instance and not just the shapes and forms or composition; though i do love the shapes and forms as well.

light is all around us continually presenting, to our dual biological portals, the twists and bends we call reality.  shadow or the subtraction of light, and light itself are the more obvious of the display.  we like the play between the two.  i am very captivated by the drama in the contrast.  the turns between darks and lights.

reflection, see through, translucent, semi opaque, hidden source - magnetique - gravitous.
i am attracted to those aspects, the carroted attributes.

but light is not just shadow or ray, manipulated cultures given off by all that enjoy the highlight or the shade.  a wet road, a dirt patch, a painted surface or a canopy of leaf, all present different pattern and light adjustments.
it's the stuff of nothing new.

"incident" is something i've been referring to as a word to capture an idea, or a way or something that speaks for a feeling i have for the interaction of light.  somehow i need to find a way to capture the "incident."

paintings, sculpture, etc. these "standards" of art often seem or feel incomplete to me.  that doesn't mean i feel less for them, but just that in-of-themselves they don't seem the "right tools" or right way to "build" or right building to make when it comes to the "capture" of expression, of light, of "incident."

but all tools and mediums have their use, their necessity.  no one tool or medium is less or more.  i just have what is needed or useful to capture the moment.  that may be paint one time, photo the next. or a combination.
but the other option i'd considered in the past is in "nothing" - or "do nothing" (because it's already in my head).  no more of that. .. or less and less of that.  i don't expect cold-turkey but i liking cold food over taking the time to heat it.  i'll be able to prepare warm meals again.

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