My abstract ideas
When we where given this assignment of choice I thought of two ideas, one was to capture images similar to the reflection photo’s of the building in Vancouver. The other was an idea that has been brewing in my mind for half a year, the anticipated anxiety that COVID-19 causes and how we hide that stress behind our masks. I then set out to explore Abstract Photography and found many artists of interest. Edward Weston, US photographer of the mid 1900, I found created intriguing abstract still life. As I see art and creativities beauty in the simple things like weeds poking through pavement, or vine on a chain-link fence and ice covering a puddle; Weston too saw the beauty in everyday objects. His abstract photograph Cabbage Leaf, and Riverbed I find spellbinding.
Colin Knowles the Vancouver software developer and photographer also creates fantastic abstract images by capturing portions of specific scenes and objects. Producing the idea of atmosphere or energy or perhaps both. His photo Skytrain is full of energy that I fell pulls me in with gravity.
Abstract Exploration: #1
It was about five years ago while on a family trip in Vancouver we stayed in a nice Hotel. The name of it escapes me. Our room was quit high up, I’m not sure how many floors. Amongst all the family hullabaloo I took a break and chanced to look out the hotel window. What a marvelous sight I saw. I stood mesmerised by the glow and ripples on the buildings walls directly across form me. I did not have my camera with me but I did have my phone so I took these pictures to capture the memory. With the intention to use as inspiration for abstract painting in the future.
Abstract Exploration:#2
Our face to face communications allow us to perceive thought and feelings. So much is expressed in the way a person holds their body and in the way the lips and eyes move when speaking. The human face is so expressive and so much of the nuances of those expression is lost when shrouded by a mask.
For the past year we have all lived with the anticipated anxiety of the impending doom of COVID-19. We have, in our own ways managed the stress. Yet the mask muzzles our ability to express our coping.
