A Change of Mind:
An Alzheimer's Portrait
Portraits:
Lesbian & Gay Couples
Italy
Lulu
Coney Island
Secret Soul of Things
Celebrities
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The Secret Soul of Things, 1976–78
Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks. —Kandinsky
I became acutely aware of color and form within the landscape, and a fascination grew inside of me for animated natural things, and later, inanimate objects seeming also to have an existence of their own. I had strong feelings during encounters with the objects of my attention. A confrontation between myself and the subject, and later, a re-creation of this would follow in the darkroom. Paul Klee talks about the spirit which exists in matter:
The object expands beyond the bounds of its appearance by our knowledge that the thing is more than its exterior presents to our eyes.
A strongly felt spirit within a subject is what holds my interest. Georgio de Chirico has said:
A work of art must relate to something that does not appear in its visible form.
To achieve the effects that I want in what could be called my "landscape" work, I manipulate color in subtle ways in the darkroom, to emphasize the light, and my own feelings for the subject. Recently, with the use of Photoshop, many of my manipulations are made easier.
Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks. —Kandinsky
I became acutely aware of color and form within the landscape, and a fascination grew inside of me for animated natural things, and later, inanimate objects seeming also to have an existence of their own. I had strong feelings during encounters with the objects of my attention. A confrontation between myself and the subject, and later, a re-creation of this would follow in the darkroom. Paul Klee talks about the spirit which exists in matter:
The object expands beyond the bounds of its appearance by our knowledge that the thing is more than its exterior presents to our eyes.
A strongly felt spirit within a subject is what holds my interest. Georgio de Chirico has said:
A work of art must relate to something that does not appear in its visible form.
To achieve the effects that I want in what could be called my "landscape" work, I manipulate color in subtle ways in the darkroom, to emphasize the light, and my own feelings for the subject. Recently, with the use of Photoshop, many of my manipulations are made easier.
