Jerri and I both have new work which we will be showing at Light and Glass, with a reception for the show next Thursday the 20th at 6pm.
The new series of work I will be showing incorporates several photos which have been digitally collaged with some pen and ink drawings. This image is a sample of one of the pen and ink drawings:
The next image is an example of one of the photographs before it was collaged with others for the final piece:
The above image is straight from the camera; I know it is a slight distinction, but I have only used photoshop to collage the elements, not to create something my camera didn’t capture. I personally use a Jerry Uelsmann litmus test for my digital manipulations, I will only digitally do less than what Uelsmann could have done in the darkroom, which gives me a pretty broad range, but requires that I start with quality images.
I, for one, am really, really excited about this show. As I told you at the studio the other night, overlapping the wireframe onto the very vibrant, fleshy figures creates a sort of Renaissance sketch–an extremely modern duplication or homage to five-century old graphite on paper.
The Sherer glass also has to be seen to be really appreciated–once you grasp how light floods the “fractures” in the bowls you can’t see it any other way.