Urban Wayfarer
For centuries artist created by making images on objects such as cave walls, vases, pieces of wood, canvas, and church ceilings. With painting, ideas, shapes, and realistic objects are composed by the artist in an ordered way on these pre-chosen surfaces. Photography was a revolutionary way of creating. Through the lens a "canvas" is placed in front of the world. Imposing this window allows the photographer to find the order hidden in what appears to be chaos. With the advent of digital imaging and Photoshop the photographer can now more readily combine objects from various images, combining them into one. I was trained before this era and was inspired by the earlier philosophy of seeing. The images in "Urban Wayfarer" explore the cities of Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, British Columbia in abstracted detail. Though digitally created, these are not multiple photographs combined into a new image. These photographs are found "as they are". The only manipulations are similar to a traditional darkroom where basic colour is worked with and selective lightening and darkening of areas of the print are made. In this way these photographs are the ordinary transformed. All of these images are of things one may pass by every day without noticing: a dumpster, cement benches, or a locked parking garage.
All 21 images from this portfolio may be viewed in my online gallery HERE.
