Image Size: 13 x 17 @240 dpi
Locations: Woodland
Cemetery/ Rittenhouse Square/Studio
Camera: Panasonic Lumix G2
Lens: 14-42 ED
ISO: 200
Proof: Epson 1430/ Cone Color Inks/ Epson Lustre
This last week I've just wanted to break routine, so I
thought I’d risk unleashing some of the other work I’m doing. This is from a
series entitled: “You Can’t Go Home Again.” Maybe it has to do with taking my
first vacation in ten years, an all-too-brief but fantastic jaunt to
Seattle. There is also a kind of
psychological shifting of gears that always happens for me as summer gives way
to fall.
Without this becoming a statement of purpose, let me say that I often encounter interesting spaces that look like they should be
stages for some kind of drama. It must be my theatre background (I did my undergraduate
in set design). It’s also an idea that goes back to work I did in drawing and
painting in graduate school. So, I
sometimes experiment with these vacant spaces and move figures from photo to photo
to create compositions that exist solely in my mind's eye.
It surprises me that the artistic validity of creating a
synthetic photographic moment is still an object of bitter dispute. Is not any
methodology that gets one to the desired ends fair game? In this case, it is the ability of Photoshop
(and constant practice!) to meld separate realities together. The figures were
captured in Rittenhouse Park, the landscape is a cemetery in West Philadelphia,
and the odd figure with the mask is an abundantly talented artist and model
named Holiday Noel, photographed in my studio. All were shot with no specific end in mind.
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