PATTERNS AND TONES

"Griffith Observatory, No. 1" 2014 Lately I have been capturing and creating what I call Sun Shadows . I have been particularly drawn to photographing shadows cast by railings and the geometric patterns they make while interacting with staircases. The steps break the bold shadows into repetitive patterns which create a lovely abstract arrangement.  As I changed their color profile to greyscale, the images began to flatten  out from 3 dimensional lines, into a 2 dimensional plane. If you can remove the initial recognition of the object and let the abstract shapes wash over you, you may begin to see what I mean.  The images are constructed from a form built out of a functional object.  Only the change in scale and frequency of lines give the illusion of the image receding,  reminiscent of the De Stijl or Neo-plasticism artistic movement that came out of the Netherlands in 1917.   Although...

" Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammer, the soul is the piano with the strings "  Wassily Kandinsky Color. It's all around us. It has served our species well to understand and decipher the inviting shades and warning signs represented by color. Our perception of color is based not just on our visual interpretation and the juxtaposition of different colors together but our emotional and social cues we have attached to specific colors throughout our lifetimes. These social color codes are inherent in societies and helps to bind a culture together.  Color is allusive and fleeting. Like photography, it cannot exist without light. Like music, it is a universal language that can convey a multitude of feelings in a single instance. The subject of color is so vast and interesting that from time to time I will come back to color and explore its interrelationship with emotion, music, science, vision,  psychology,  culture and other elements th...