pinhole # 17 ~ more artsy bullock

canoe straps ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack PARK

Rencently encountered artsy bullock:

...My current research as a photo-based artist can be characterized by a shift away from the reliance on the photograph purely as image to an examination of the threshold between image and surface and its metaphorical equivalence to the relationship between observation and imagining.

Apparently, according to the preceding BS, today's picture is not a picture made with a pinhole lens. Rather, I am engaged in research, examining thresholds and exploring a relationship.

Yah, yah. Or, you could just think of me as a pinhead using a pinhole to pin point how to dance on the head of a pin.

civilized ku # 4039-40 ~ straight ahead

apples and hose ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack PARK

dead plant ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack PARK

Lest you think otherwise, I haven't given up straight picture making. In fact, I am picturing along, straight picture making wise, at about the same pace as I was prior to the arrival of the what the camera sees thing.

what the camera sees (overexposure) # 7 ~ + plus a couple additions

steps

apples and hose

lawn and sidewalk

As I continue to make what the camera sees (overexposure) pictures, I continue to wonder if I am on to something or trying something different just for the hell of it. And as I continue to experiment I am coming to the conclusion that I am creating 2 related but, in fact, different bodies of work.

The first body of work is, as the title of this (and previous) entries suggests, what the camera sees (overexposure). However, in addition to that nomenclature, what is also emerging is a separate body of work which could be titled, what the camera sees (out of focus) - see yesterday's birch tree picture and the apples and hose picture in today's entry.

And then, just to put another pot on the stove, there is my continuing fascination with what could be titled what the camera sees (blown highlights).

In any event, I'll continue putter around and picture away just to see where it all leads.

what the camera sees (overexposure) # 6 / civilized ku # 4038 ~ still messing around

birch tree

birch tree ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack PARK

One each - out of focus / over exposure and blown highlights.

Recently encoutered Artsy Bullock: By digitally creating a photograph that is a composite of multiple negatives of the same model in one setting, the self is exposed as not a solidified being in reality, but as a representation of social and interior investigations that happen within the mind.

civilized ku # 4037 ~ dancing eyes

bike and tree / Rist Camp ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK

I am starting to develop a facsination with multiple blown out highlights. The eye really dances around the 2D surface of a print.

picture windows # 70 ~ end of the line

kitchen window / Rist Camp ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK

Today is the end of our 5 week stay at Rist Camp.

Normally, at this time in September, the hills are alive with a blaze of Autumn color which is a very nice climax to our stay at Rist Camp. However, due to a very dry Spring and Summer together with a very mild September (the first frost was last night), the leaves are still on the trees and there are but a few faint hints of muted Autumn reds.

On a related picture making sidebar, while here at Rist Camp, I arranged to have an exhibition of my Life Without the APA work at barVino in North Creek. barVino is a restaurant, wine bar, and live music venue with a rustic chic menu. In addition they exhibit (and sell) art, not merely as decoration, but in a serious gallery manner. Their current exhibition features Danish illustrator Mads Berg's work.

My work will follow Berg's work beginning with an opening reception on Friday, November 4. The exhibition will run through the Thanksgiving and Xmas / New Year holidays.