Like Meg and a few other people mentioned in the crit of my best work last week i do take a lot of shots of nature taking over, destroying what people have made and growing back after we've taken its natural area. I Do Love The Look Of Plants Growing Around What People Have Added Into Its Environment. I have a lot of shots like these and fallen buildings, but i don't like to think of my work as images of the destruction of humanity or population because that just seems morbid, sad and pessimistic. I'd rather think of my most common work as pictures of the natural determination to survive. It is obvious that i'm not a huge fan of what people have done to our planet and i'm not counting myself out of this but Nature no matter what the circumstances can be made more interesting and even more beautiful than anything people can create.I also take a lot of shots in unconventional ways, night shots to be specific, to make an image that is not just a picture of a landscape or building but a piece of art with lines that you wouldn't normally see. Hundresds of lines across the sky, one trail from each star in the night sky with one or more trails crossing all of those paths from an airplane in this image, but in others i have trails from shooting stars. This image also has a few very strong lines, one from the highway wrapping around the Water Gap
and one from the mountains themselves cutting straight across the picture.I've found that a lot of my work relies on strong lines and the interaction of nature and man made objects. It is not the dark, hate filled imagery that a lot of people see it as unless you want it to. I don't mind that people see it that way as long as they come back and look at it again.
Jared,
ReplyDeleteI know this one is completely unrelated to your blog, still, I have a question for you.
That high, THAT high Jared. So high I needed to blow outta there and miss class. To feel stoned again, of course.
Now, you've changed from my buddy to a "lil'" bippytwat. Thanks, I still had thought I could stick it out before you said, "you're high". Not high enough young man, not high enough.
Charlotte, (you're heroine mama) incognito.
end of first paragraph, I think you're missing a comma by, you're, "but" man.
ReplyDeleteDid you know the Indigenous Peoples of this country make proper nouns out of anything? I'll let you borrow my "Thirteen Original Clan Mothers" book, by JAMIE SAMS. It has a color picture section in the center. It will be in my car for Thursday, if I can suffer on that long, Old Lady Lotta.
If you don't return the book in good condition you will face severe consequences, so severe, I may need to observe and monitor you as you touch that book of mine!
So far "I hear ya talking, and I dig what you're saying", (old beatnik comment)
Charlotte, again!
A part Native Woman Leesa, taught me how to see a Mtn.'s "aura". Don'tjyah know it's true, SEEING is believing, sometimes.
ReplyDeleteDo you want to have a campfire with me someday, we'll walk away from the fire, close our eyes and look to the stars, without any fire in our peripheral vision, unless that's what's hip now, Jared.
I'm good at finding things in clouds, on those long, hot, summer days! Check with my first love, Brent Munster.
It's a bit symmetrical horizontally, for my tastes, but I haven't seen a better job of what you had described yet! Keep doing what you're doing.
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Charlotte here