Thesis Show: Unique c-Print Collage

This is the Unique c-Print Collage that I exhibited at our Thesis Show last month. Though these files will never do the actual prints justice, I thought some of you would like to see what I worked so hard on my last term. Please enjoy.

Unique C-Print's

Five of my latest unique c-Prints and photograms from my last critique. These images are not quite where I want them to be, but I was still fond of these visually and for the ideas they are starting to bring about. I'm still looking to have more layers and depth to these images, to try and create an unique concept of land and space.

Unique c-Print's

Three new Unique c-Prints that I made this past Monday. I like that they have a Japanese print style to them. I'm hoping to start making more images like the third one below. Images that have more depth and illusions of dimension in them. I want to create environments that don't exist with this work.

Unique-c-Print

Another Unique c-Print from the Fall of 2009. I have always been drawn to this image on multiple levels, from it's seduction of color, to the fluidness it displays. It hold a strong sense of motion or some sort of act, but an indescribable one.

Unique c-Print

This is a new Unique c-Print I made in the fall of 2009. It doesn't quite fit in with my thesis project, but I still feel it has an interesting representation of the landscape, or at least the idea of what the landscape really is. Enjoy this loner dootie.

Current work: September to November 2009

Here is a long overdue post of some recent work. I have been working really hard this term on this current project and have produced a lot of new images. Here is a selection of just a few of those images. Below is my current artist statement for this project, though the statement changes week to week as the work evolves, it will give you a good understanding of what is going on in the work. Stay tuned for more images and more info.

This project represents my curiosities about the landscape and spaces I surround myself by. It’s about stepping forward and examining the reoccurring patterns and common human interaction with the land. I’m interested in finding scenes that imply recent modification, redevelopment, or the shortened evolution of a space.

Though I am stepping forward for my examinations, my interest is about stepping back and using the details that accumulate to create a whole environment. Through these images I search for beauty within cities that envelope once natural landscapes. I am interested in letting the juxtaposition of positive to negative spaces lead from one image to the next, to show the relationship of things we normally wouldn’t perceive. Within that relationship I am also interested in creating a link from the abstract images to the more concrete ones.

As a photographer, collector and image sculptor, my goal is to create a conversation with the different processes I use. Through the use of a camera, a darkroom and at times even a computer, I try to let the intersection of nature and constructed objects meet in my images. I let certain photographs I make lead me to preconceived ideas of my own darkroom creations, in hopes that those ideas along with the surprising elements of my methods speak in my work.

Unique c-Prints

Unique c-Print Triptych

Unique c-Prints

A few images from my Unique c-Print Series. These images lean a little more on the abstract side, which is the direction the project is taking.

More From My Unique Prints Series

Here are several more images from my Unique Prints series. I consider the ones on this posting to be part of the more literal images of this series, but they can still be interpreted in many different ways. Please enjoy these images and I will have some new ones posted within the next couple days.